Hiroshima – 50 Years

by Mordechai Vanunu

Hiroshima Hiroshima
My beloved Hiroshima,
Your sons, daughters, elders, wives,
Blew, radiated with an Atomic Bomb
A radioactive cloud consumed rubbed out Hiroshima,

For a live nuclear test sentenced you,
a nuclear laboratory of children, women, trees, animals,
in and under nuclear mushroom live burning,
burned flattened to ground radioactive ash- Hiroshima

Hiroshima Hiroshima
Nuclear weapons gamblers win against you,
a U.S. revenge for Pearl Harbour, Hiro-shima
Japan heroism is the target,
wipe out, ruined Hiro - Hero- shima - Truman.

Hiroshima Hero- shima
Japan and U.S. betrayed you Hero Hiroshima,
silence forget Hiroshima Atomic tragedy,
Japan sacrifices your holocaust on the Yen altar,
Hollywood doesn't know you - you are not a Jewish Holocaust

Hiroshima Hiroshima
Anti-nuclear weapons campaigners adopting you,
Orphans. Heritage of Hiroshima our heroes,
carry preach the memory, message, of Hiroshima,
to the future ages to end nuclear gamblers.
Beginning and end of nuclear weapons. Hiroshima. Hero.
Hiroshima. Hero. Hero. Hero.

-Vanunu Mordechai from Ashkelon Prison 1995

Anthony Gurasico and I were deported from Isreal in 1993 for protesting Mordechai torture and sentence of 18 years of solitery cònfinment.
We of the Alliance Of Atomic Veterans saw him as a hero and Vangurd of Warning.
Herere aarre a few poems he wrote while rotting in Ahsklin Prison. RHB



VANUNU MORDECHAI J.C.

I Am Your Spy

by Mordechai Vanunu

I am the clerk, the technician, the mechanic, the driver.
They said, Do this, do that, don't look left or right,
don't read the text. Don't look at the whole machine. You
are only responsible for this one bolt. For this one rubber-stamp.
This is your only concern. Don't bother with what is above you.
Don't try to think for us. Go on, drive. Keep going. On, on.

So they thought, the big ones, the smart ones, the futurologists.
There is nothing to fear. Not to worry.
Everything's ticking just fine.
Our little clerk is a diligent worker. He's a simple mechanic.
He's a little man.
Little men's ears don't hear, their eyes don't see.
We have heads, they don't.

Answer them, said he to himself, said the little man,
the man with a head of his own. Who is in charge? Who knows
where this train is going?
Where is their head? I too have a head.
Why do I see the whole engine,
Why do I see the precipice--
is there a driver on this train?

The clerk driver technician mechanic looked up.
He stepped back and saw -- what a monster.
Can't believe it. Rubbed his eyes and -- yes,
it's there all right. I'm all right. I do see
the monster. I'm part of the system.
I signed this form. Only now I am reading the rest of it.

This bolt is part of a bomb. This bolt is me. How
did I fail to see, and how do the others go on
fitting bolts. Who else knows?
Who has seen? Who has heard? -- The emperor really is naked.
I see him. Why me? It's not for me. It's too big.

Rise and cry out. Rise and tell the people. You can.
I, the bolt, the technician, mechanic? -- Yes, you.
You are the secret agent of the people. You are the eyes of the nation.
Agent-spy, tell us what you've seen. Tell us what the insiders, the clever ones, have hidden from us.
Without you, there is only the precipice. Only catastrophe.

I have no choice. I'm a little man, a citizen, one of the people,
but I'll do what I have to. I've heard the voice of my conscience
and there's nowhere to hide.
The world is small, small for Big Brother.
I'm on your mission. I'm doing my duty. Take it from me.

Come and see for yourselves. Lighten my burden. Stop the train.
Get off the train. The next stop -- nuclear disaster. The next book,
the next machine. No. There is no such thing.

-1987, Ashkelon Prison



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