The Bomb: August 6, 1945

No protest march could dare delay
the mission of Enola Gay,
which carried Little Boy in bay;
atomic bomb (now let us pray.)

So scattered was debris from blast
(and fallout, making slow death last),
that miles beyond, bone-dust flew past;
incineration—hot and fast.

Then refugees with burns from heat
swayed shaken through debris in street.
They must have known in dazed retreat
that mass destruction was complete.

City in ruins—airburst shock
(beginning of atomic clock).
So many of said bombs in stock;
it’s surefire Armageddon lock.

Effects of bomb left little doubt;
to wit, Earth-shake atomic shout.
Much like a single weed tossed out;
Hiroshima was strewn about.


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Writer’s Cramp
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Requirements:
--protest march
--refugees
--City in ruins
--a single weed