Short Oppenheimer Poems

All his dreams shattered
        So began the nightmare to
               pick up the atoms


By
David Kavanagh...

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see the way i drag yooooooou into
my more bid drizzles
As if to share a secret
I twist ?? words
leather bands entwined
mask ornate hide rancid
of thoughts-of thoughts-of thoughts-of thoughts
was that a train of thought or a train of of thoughts
Anywhens
making an Oppenheimer drop
Burn my shadow to the rock
I'm outta
as if i was ever here...

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For knowledge and wisdom, I glean
     geometry, physics, science,
philosophy, and tomes umpteen!
     In search of shrewd intelligence,
I forsake college's campus scene;
     and pursue rhyme's magnificence,

spinning lines on the wheel and loom,
     and threaded weave, of the rhymer
than idle in a dull classroom
     (wishing for death by Oppenheimer)....

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Consider the practice of pedagogy.
Sounds less like a noble profession,
And more like a pervert’s kinky fetish,
A groomer’s form of fieldcraft.
Socrates taught Plato,
Just as Shumann mentored Brahms.
Einstein tutored Oppenheimer,
And so inspired those bombs.
When a student has mastered a subject, 
Does the teacher proclaim it success?
Or is there regret in awareness
Of the genie set loose on the world?
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