Lucifer, To the Enola Gay
Lucifer, To The Enola Gay
by Michael R. Burch
Go then,
and give them my meaning
so that their teeming
streets
become my city.
Bring back a pretty
flower—
a chrysanthemum,
perhaps, to bloom
if but an hour,
within a certain room
of mine
where
the sun does not rise or fall,
and the moon,
although it is content to shine,
helps nothing at all.
There,
if I
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Categories:
enola, conflict, death, humanity, power,
Form: Free verse
Enola Gay
Enola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen by the pilot and named after his mother. 2
With the ‘Victor number’ on the fuselage and ‘bomb group marking’ on
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Categories:
enola, education, history, usa, war,
Form: Verse
Enola Gay
It makes you wonder what would have been that day
If the Enola Gay didn't fly to Hiroshima to blast it away
Would the Japanese have surrendered
Before the Russians joined the war as they intended
It might have meant that the Russians would invade
Japan and as their influence there wouldn't fade
And perhaps it would mean that further casualties
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Categories:
enola, war, world war ii,
Form: Ballad
The Enola Gay Section Two
Japan's consequences were a little more apparent, and devastating. Japan's once great city of Hiroshima, lay in ruin, a barren wasteland, with its entire population, sixty thousand individuals, perished instantly in one bright and intense flash. The first casualties of nuclear power in the "Atomic Age." Another forty thousand individuals, living further from the blast
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Categories:
enola, abuse, conflict, death, world
Form: Narrative
The Enola Gay Section One
In the year 1945, a few powerful American leaders decided it was alright for them to play God. Taking the initiative to create a weapon of mass destruction, not exceeded still today, or even closely matched. The only thing even remotely close was the Asteroid that struck Earth millions of years ago, sealing the Dinosaurs
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Categories:
enola, abuse, conflict, death, world
Form: Narrative
Flight of Enola Gay
FLIGHT OF ENOLA GAY
Will you tell us tomorrow where we're going, Enola Gay?
There's so much more we wanted to say.
But there's no time for sorrow,
we'll enjoy time that's left,
Though we know our time ended yesterday.
We could tell you the story, but no body understands,
Nagasaki, Hiroshima, distant lands.
It's not clear what we're doing,
but we're pursueing it
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Categories:
enola, confusion, depression, history, political,
Form: Rhyme
Enola Happy
I think that what happened was that we all wanted to be Oedipus and possess our mothers.
But because society frowns on such couplings,
we actually sought to BECOME our mothers.
Since only a woman can make a life,
and because our sex is opposite and we lived in a world of men,
in order to be the
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Categories:
enola, historywoman,
Form: Free verse