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we should all live like the atomic bomb - Joschua Beres

12/17/2013

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Picture
the bomb over Hiroshima 
took forty-five seconds to fall 
until: flash. bang. pop.
maybe that helps you realize 
the importance of forty-five seconds
because even if that bomb fell 
for forty-five years, it wouldn't be 
enough time.

but in one millionth of a second.
modern American science
can birth a second sun just long enough
to prove that popcorn never lasts past the previews.
lovers clothes never come off fast enough.
kites will never take you to the moon.
and doctors will always say its Cancer.

we should live like the atomic bomb 
shaking our souls into thunder clouds
singing electric hallelujah praises.

because in the cosmic end 
all we really have 
are those forty-five seconds.
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