poem, poetry, nuclear, bomb, cover up, secrecy, humanity

UNDER WRAPS

Rutherford split it
in a laboratory
at my alma mater
(kudos
to that)

then
over Bikuni Atoll

air burst.
over Nagasaki

barely tested and
rushed into action
could have ended all.wars
previously if
as
conjectured
had set the atmosphere on fire

be thankful
for small mercies

atom split
world went hush-hush,
furtively fissile

pandora’s box within
a box within box
inside Schrondinger’s
thought-out, Cheshire cat
beaming
wave collapse experiment

in Miss P box (box according
to Madane P (P for plutonium)
the weight of
secret subterfuge
lethality
of
big lie

obviously satanic in its ceremony
dark critical mass

common (and uncommon
sense) dictating

must keep the sure thing
odds-on holocaust
forever
under wraps