Page 33 - Litterateur March 2021

I’m a Particle of Dust Speaking

people were relocated. California, being flooded with

Okies, had to overtax the state’s health and employment

infrastructure. It’s regarded as one of the worst dust

storms in the history of the U.S.A. when 300 million tons

of topsoil were displaced from the prairie area and I

could show off my power. As you stage a parade of

missiles, elite troops and defense hardware in display of

strength, so also, I like to travel thousands of kilometers

and cause respiratory problems to the people of faraway

countries in a show of my strength. You should know

that I can remain in different forms. Being a finer particle,

I can penetrate your lower respiratory tract and enter the

bloodstream where I have an opportunity to damage

your internal organs as well as cause cardiovascular

disorder. If coated by pollution I may act as

condensation nuclei for warm cloud formation and as

efficient ice nuclei agent for cold cloud generation. As

industrial dust, asbestos or quartz – I can put an end to

your charisma. Yet, to you my identity is nothing but

dust. Is it only because I have neither a Joseph Goebbels

nor his Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and

Propaganda?

I’m a particle of dust and I’ll remain so for years to come.

You may raise the question of my ability to claim racial

purity or supremacy! No, I’m not ashamed to admit that