Boom Boom Fear

boom boom fear a poem by
keith o'connor

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I in the 1960's, I scoffed at friends, fearing the Russians would drop an atomic bomb on us. I wrote this poem to show how fearless I was in my belief that a nuclear war would not happen.

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boom boom fear

there used to be
an
e n g l a n d
before they dropped
the
b-o-o-m b-o-o-m

and now
there is
an
e n g l a n d
a traveling into
outer space

and
t-h-e-y

will with their
u n i o n j a c k
implant upon some
distant star

a little bit of england
from the planet earth
boom boom

keith o'connor
ottawa, canada 1962
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