Enola Wasn't Gay
Did you know
Enola wasn't gay? (2)
Straight, like a plumb line,
Down
To the wood and paper houses
To the tumbling younglings
To the Mayor, eating breakfast with his grand chicks
In Hiroshima
To the 18 year old mail carrier.
In Nagasaki.
(His name was Tamaguchi, by the way.
He was in the way, as Hell fell.
Ashes to ashes
They all fell down).
To the toenails.
The eyebrows.
Did you know
Enola, backwards, spells Alone?
Tibbets said , "I did what I was told".
"You've killed so many civilians".
"That's their tough luck for being there".
I can remember being born
Bursting out of the birth canal
Alone.
Wildly exuberant, overjoyed,
Give me fistfuls of life! I thought.
I wonder: what language did I think in?
Will we self-annihilate?
Or, when I end in this universe,
Do I begin in another?
Can I slither thither
Back and forth between them?
Shall I wait for you there?
We will live in harmony.
No longer
Alone.
c. Corinne Whitaker 2015 - 2025 and always
(1) Adapted from the book Alone
(2)"The Enola Gay was a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, famously known for being the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. It was used to deliver the atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy," to Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The plane was named after the pilot, Col. Paul Tibbets's mother, Enola Gay Tibbets." (Google search)
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