AFTERMATH

America, America”…………………………….
Gone are your “amber waves of grain”
For now those “beautiful, spacious skies”
Give us radioactive rain.

Those “purple mountain majesties”…………….
Are blown to dust again.
No more “fruited plains” for now
“Life” is deadly dust in the wind.

“America, America”…………………………..
What will become of you?
The nuclear war of yesterday
Destroyed all, but a few.

“America, America”………………………..
We survivors are a small lot.
YES, MAN CAN SURVIVE A NUCLEAR WAR,
But my question is:
FOR WHAT?