"In some crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor,
no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have
known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
~-J. Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear scientist
in a lecture, November 25, 1947
Give me water!
Oh! Give me water to drink!
Let me have some!
I want rather to die---
To die!
Help me, 0, help me!
Water!
A bit of water!
I beg you:
Won't anyone: ...
The heaven split;
The streets are gone;
The River,
The river flowing on: ...
Night:
Night coming on
To these eyes parched and sere;
To these lips inflamed
Ah! the moaning of a man
Of a man
Reeling,
Whose face is
Scorched, smarting;
This ruined face of a man!"
-~Tamiki Hara, Hiroshima writer-poet
(1905-1951), a suicide
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