Get in the Ōta, mom
We need to swim now
Get to the bridge
And jump in.
But … where is the bridge?
Get in the Ōta, mom
We need to be in water
Get off your clothes
Strip down now.
But … where are your clothes?
Get in the Ōta, mom
We’ll be ok then
Let me touch your face
And see your eyes.
But … where is your face?
Get in the Ōta, mom
It will stop the burning
We will be alive again
Join the others.
But … why are they all dead?
May 25, 2024
An imagined conversation between a child and her mother in Hiroshima, Japan following the nuclear blast from the atom bomb dropped by the United States on August 6, 1945.
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