and I always die

what the fuck was it all about? 

"piss off!" i heard them shout 

it's Hiroshima 

with a blinding atomic storm 

early August trees smoking and torn 

Los Alamos created pieces of despair 

melting human skin in super heated air

and no United Nations to give a shit or care:

there are shadows torched against a crumbling wall

and i'm expected to forget i saw??

damn, applause rose from across the Pacific

from bar stools who thought it was terrific:

i still see the survivors pointing bony fingers

at me and i always die.