In the Enola Gay
five minutes before impact
he whistles a dry tune
Later he will say
that the whole blooming sky
went up like an apricot ice.
Later he will laugh and tremble
at such a surrender, for the eye
of his belly saw Marilyn's skirts
fly over her head for ever
On the river bank,
bees drizzle over
hot white rhododendrons
Later she will walk the dust,
a scarlet girl
with her whole stripped skin
at her heel, stuck like an old
shoe sole or mermaid's tail
Later she will lie down
in the flecked black ash
where the people are become
as lizards or salamanders
and, blinded, she will complain
Mother you are late. So late
Later in dreams he will look
down shrieking and see
ladybirds
ladybirds
I had not seen or hear-of this poem before. I'm familiar with the bombing of Hiroshima from a historical standpoint, but I can't say that I really understood this poem. I searched online for an explanation. I found this document. It looks like some sort of literature homework. It helped quite a bit.
In my agency days, I produced this video (which was part of a larger campaign about surviving a nuclear attack in a city). Was a ton of fun, and quite sobering: https://vimeo.com/29382035
I don't see a difference on the evilness rate of who kills a two hundred thousand or who kill a million civilians. I understand each side had different reasons, but I am talking just about the evilness on that. During the war, everybody is evil.
If he kills thousands, for sure. No difference between thousands or millions, it is the same evilness rate. After some point, there is no difference in cruelty.
