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Literature

1945 in sepia

the boy called spineless has a backbone lost in the rubble of hiroshima, his unfettered hands pulling at maps and photographs. with worn and radioactive identity, he knows that the world is a veteran, sick of empathy & can look massacre in the eye without blinking. hastily, people will cleanse themselves of alpha particles and corpses they did not touch. history classrooms will suck the marrow of tragedy unafflicted, passing nagasaki as another word in a textbook, pointing at pictures, saying that’s what you get when you fuck with america. he does not blame them. they have not seen for themselves the crimson cloud inhaling his o