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December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 admin
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New Poetry

“Now We are All Sons of Bitches”

 

It slips away.

 

Standing where water meets shore

the questing tendrils of the leviathan

pull sand from beneath my feet.

I curl my toes yet,

wave after wave,

I sink deeper into the morass of this island.

 

And I wonder, how can this be

when the island itself

is sun-blanched driftwood?

 

Sometimes it just slips away.

 

There was a fire and a ship.

We set flames to timber

and the ship sank

and grains of civilization

rustled out with the indefatigable

tide.

 

We lit the fire . . .

we let the fire

go out.

 

And I cannot remember why.

My name is . . . .

 

Kenneth D. Reimer

 

You might note two allusions here. The first is to Kenneth Bainbridge. He was the director of the Trinity test of the Manhattan Project, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge called the Trinity explosion a “foul and awesome display” and remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, “Now we are all sons of bitches.”

The second reference is to Lord of the Flies. That novel is set in the time of a nuclear war, so I have created a moment looking through the eyes of the character Ralph. 

I thought it might be interesting to intersect these two perspectives.

 

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For anyone interested in visiting some of my other sites, here are some useful links. To purchase a copy of my novel, Zero Time, you can either go to Amazon.ca or Amazon.com.  To see what I have on Facebook, follow this link: Facebook.  Lastly, if you are interested in my collection of travel videos, check out my Youtube channel at Youtube.

 

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