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August 09, 2008

Nagasaki

The second atomic bomb was dropped at 11:02 AM on this day in 1945: nicknamed "the Fat Man," the bomb devastated Nagasaki and demonstrated that the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier was repeatable. When the Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender, he explained that "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage."
photos by Yosuke Yamahata

Posted by The Best American Poetry on August 09, 2008 at 08:02 AM in History, Spontaneous Aphorisms | Permalink

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman