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<\/p>\n26 September 2022<\/p>\n
Editor’s Note: Here’s a draft of something Marlow typed back in 2017. Then, the pudgy, little big rocket man of Asia was making disturbing noises about something existential. We talked about one of the Earth’s true Big Rocket Men making similar serious noises this week, the ones about “not bluffing” about a dramatic change in the situation in Ukraine. At the Fire Ring, we think it is time to share it.<\/p>\n
– Vic<\/p>\n
26 October 2017
\nNo People on the Streets<\/p>\n
Author’s note: I penned this earlier during a month of North Korean bombast and the aftermath of Vegas shooting. Then American bike paths and church pews were suddenly no longer safe. It seemed then that we were being seared or slow roasted by these events into a numbness that might lead to us dropping our guards to some larger more systemic tragedy. Now that North Korean troubled waters seem to be on the verge of another tempest, it is time to share it.<\/p>\n
– Marlow<\/p>\n
Threats of war pushing down on us
\nPressing down on us, a war that none ask for
\nUnder pressure that could bring our world crashing down
\nMight blow up a country or two
\nPutting people on the streets<\/p>\n
Media blabbity blah yesterday
\nBlabbity blabbity blah today
\nMore of the same tomorrow, but that’s okay
\nWhere’s the terror of knowing
\nThat the world might be about to<\/p>\n
Blow up
\nWe’ll watch good countrymen
\nScreaming “Let me out”
\nPray tomorrow gets us safer
\nThreats of war, no people on the streets<\/p>\n
Media chirpin’ around, kicking our fears around the floor
\nNever ending days, it never rains, but it pours
\nNo people on the streets
\nNo people on the streets
\nFilled with the terror of knowing
\nThat war might break out
\nWill we be watching good countrymen
\nScreaming “Let me out”
\nPraying tomorrow gets us safer
\nThreats of war, but no people on the streets<\/p>\n
We’ve turned away from it all like a blind man
\nWe’re sitting on fences hoping it’ll all work out
\nWaiting for them but will the world get slashed and torn
\nWhy, why, why?<\/p>\n
Insanity laughs while we’re break taking
\nCan’t we give ourselves one more chance
\nNo people on the streets, edge of the night
\nNo people on the streets, no hope that we’ll change our ways<\/p>\n
Is this the world’s last dance
\nIs this it
\nPeople on the streets
\nUnder pressure
\nNo people on the streets.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
No people on the streets of Hiroshima – AP file photo September 5 1945. Complete text of the Tokyo English-language broadcast as
\nrecorded by the Federal Communications Commission days after the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima:<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the gradual restoration of order following the disastrous ruin that struck the city of Hiroshima in the wake of the enemy\u2019s new-type bomb on Monday morning, the authorities are still unable to obtain a definite check-up on the extent of the casualties sustained by the civilian population.<\/p>\n
\u201cMedical relief agencies that were rushed from the neighboring districts were unable to distinguish, much less identify, the dead from the injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe impact of the bomb was so terrific that practically all living things, human and animals, were literally seared to death by the tremendous heat and pressure engendered by the blast. All of the dead and injured were burned beyond recognition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith houses and buildings crushed, including the emergency medical facilities, the authorities are having their hands full in giving every available relief possible under the circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe effect of the bomb was widespread. Those outdoors burned to death, while those indoors were killed by the indescribable pressure and heat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Copyright \u00a9 2017 From My Isle Seat
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