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People (we are all son of *******

Atomic energy is a good thing contemplated the good scientist

But only for us good people to forget

Lincoln's, Hemingway's and Madame Curie's silent voices echoes from the sidewalk

Where people idly passes by; lost in tall low fat Frappuccino’s

Looking and hoping then ultimately wishing for a visit from Benjamin Franklin

Unwittingly employed by all the dead presidents

These days’ people know the price of everything

But the value of nothing

Makes me gallivant; my own memory warehouse

As I pose this question towards my own psyche;

What is the worst thing I have ever done?

In the name of personal achievement career elevation and prosperity

All everyone ever wants to be is successful rich and richer

Oppenheimer colleague put our modern society in to perfect perspective

Post detonation of the Trinity project - after the first nuclear test

When he gracefully quoted

"Now we are all son of *******

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Written by
harsha-2
34 / M / Planet Earth
Published
Aug 22, 2018
Lines·Words
17·151
Notes

post-detonation quote of Kenneth Bainbridge, the director of the Trinity project: “Now we are all sons of ******* It is often put in contrast with J. Robert Oppenheimer’s more grandiose, more cryptic, “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.”

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