Robert Oppenheimer manned "The Manhattan Project",
a top secret World War II mission
which constituted "Little Boy" codename
for a uranium gun-type atomic bomb dropped at 0815
exploding 580 metres above civilians
with15 kiloton blast yield reduced 400 year old city to dust
Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot/ bombardier
of the Enola Gay (the Boeing B-29 Superfortress
unleashing nuclear warfare sixty years ago today)
gives cause for this baby boomer to revisit
mentally, the annihilation, extermination, incineration
the first of two storied Japanese enclaves
realizes how trifling
my current bout with mania paranoia, pneumonia
(from northern exposure)
contrasted with sinister malevolent evil tower ushering
thermonuclear age epitomizing
coup de nada so graceful means maximum military mutilation
though unwell, this inflammation poised
to be cured unlike subsequent generations of victims
who survived atrocious, egregious, heinous,
judicious slaughter can only poorly be described
by this mortal with a curable bacterial/viral infection
aghast at such wanton killing, more so
via weapons of mass destruction
more devastatingly grisly than those "experimental" bombs
loosed upon the innocent population,
whereby 75,000 people killed or fatally injured
with 65% of casualties nine years of age and younger
whence offspring of survivors
evincing excess genetic anomalies
with fiery windy surface temperatures topping 4,000C
upon terrain hallowed by ghastly horrible deathly dominance
amidst shadow of a mushroom cloud.
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klot56t67gy87 (
Offline) - Published: January 13th, 2017 01:05
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WELCOME KLOT ~ Thanks for your first poem a very graphic account of the horrendous events that bought a swift end to WW2 with Japan. President Truman felt he had no choice and gave his permission ~ FOR THE BOMBS TO BE DEPLOYED ~ to save the lives of thousands of American & British & Japanese Militia in return for the death (sudden & slow) of over 75,000 "innocent" Japanese Civilians. President Truman never forgave himself. I am a Pacifist and I am thankful that NUCLEAR FISSION is being used for peaceful means ~ BUT we must be dilligent especially with a HAWK on the throne in the USA. I am a Scientist and I know that OPPENHEIMER and the other Scientists tried to distance themselves after the event # BUT it was too late ~ the deed had been done and the USA and her Allies must ALL share the blame. Thanks for sharing a very very significant event in Military History in poetry. It was almost 40 years before my time ~ Yours BRIAN (UK)
Wonderful write
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