Tag: Hiroshima

DAL DIARIO DELLA MORTE

 

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I Giganti

cacciati dall’Olimpo

vomitarono

la loro rabbia

sulle  fertili terre

di Bacco…

raccolsi anime

già senza corpo:

nulla

o solo ombre.

La cenere

coprì

umani e bestie,

più tardi lavorai

per le anime lente

che abbandonavano

i brandelli

di ciò

che fu umano.

Raccolsi anche

il coraggioso Plinio.

Dopo secoli

m’incammino ancora

dove il dolore

si sta radunando:

al ponte di Miyuki.

Ho lasciato le ombre

fuse nei muri

e devo abbracciare

chi è sopravvissuto

alla bolla

e al tuono:

per loro

fine  dell’agonia,

per altri

la vita

sarà l’atroce destino.

Dal ponte,

ho guardato il

mondo

cercando il Dio

causa del macello:

ho trovato

solo nani

che festeggiavano

la vittoria.

(Pompei, 79 d.C. – Hiroshima, 6 Agosto 1945)

Romano Pisciotti

HIROSHIMA: FIRST AID AT MIYUKI BRIDGE

From the diary of Death

The Giants

expelled from Olympus

vomited

their rage

on the fertile lands

of Bacchus…

I gathered souls

already without bodies:

nothing

or only shadows.

The ash

covered

humans and beasts,

later I worked

for the slow souls

that abandoned

the shreds

of what

was human.

I also gathered

the brave Pliny.

After centuries

I still walk

where the pain

is gathering:

at the Miyuki bridge.

I left the shadows

fused in the walls

and I must embrace

those who survived

the bubble

and the thunder:

for them

the end of the agony,

for others

life

will be the atrocious destiny.

From the bridge,

I looked at the

world

looking for the God

cause of the slaughter:

I found

only dwarves

celebrating

the victory.

(Pompeii, 79 AD – Hiroshima, August 6, 1945)

Romano Pisciotti

Hiroshima – Nagasaki

On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan. The uranium 235 gun-type, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. In an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured. The blast wave shattered windows for a distance of ten miles and was felt as far away as 37 miles. Hiroshima had disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke. The co-pilot, Captain Robert Lewis, commented, “My God, what have we done?”

 

Hiroshima dopo la bomba

On August 9, 1945, another American B-29 bomber, Bock’s Car, left Tinian carrying Fat Man, a plutonium implosion-type bomb. The primary target was the Kokura Arsenal, but upon reaching the target, they found that it was covered by a heavy ground haze and smoke and were unable drop the bomb. The pilot, Major Charles Sweeney, turned to the secondary target of the Mitsubishi Torpedo Plant at Nagasaki. The bomb exploded at 11:02 a.m. over the narrow Urakami Valley northwest of downtown Nagasaki. Of the 286,000 people living in Nagasaki at the time of the blast, 74,000 people were killed and another 75,000 sustained severe injuries. The damage was less extensive, since the blast was boxed in by the river valley and partly to the fact that the bomb was dropped about 2 miles off target.

 

Romano Pisciotti: madness

Settant’anni fa la bomba atomica// Seventy years ago the atomic bomb

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 1945 file photo, only a handful of buildings remain standing amid the wasteland of Hiroshima, the Japanese city reduced to rubble following the first atomic bomb to be dropped in warfare. On Aug. 6, 1945, a U.S. plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first nuclear weapon has been used in war. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II. (ANSA/AP Photo/File)
FILE – In this Sept. 8, 1945 file photo, only a handful of buildings remain standing amid the wasteland of Hiroshima, the Japanese city reduced to rubble following the first atomic bomb to be dropped in warfare. On Aug. 6, 1945, a U.S. plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first nuclear weapon has been used in war. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II. (ANSA/AP Photo/File)

 

“Only the americans have used this infernal device”

Romano Pisciotti