<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Come to Hiroshima</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to those who with no shame condone</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">annihilation of whole cities or nations</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">please come to Hiroshima</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">come in early August when the heat is worst</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">make sure you're there on the sixth</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">when the sweat running down your back</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">somehow feels appropriate</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">see the museum - learn what you can</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">imagine as deeply as possible what happened</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and try to understand - why</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to those who think we need atomic bombs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">newer better more useable ones</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">as certain leaders now claim</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">please come to Hiroshima</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">walk through Peace Park</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">this epicenter - cemetery of ironic serenity</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">contemplate - meditate - try to understand</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">would we have done this to whites - dear Christians</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">here by the riverside thousands staggered to water</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">"mizu! mizu!" some couldn't even ask</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">for what could possibly relieve the burning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to those who think that war is still okay</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">sleepy as people used to be about slavery</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">come see the shattered wrecked dome</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">left in jagged shambles to remind us</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">see at sunset the paper lanterns</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">red blue and gold - inscribed with dreams</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">people lovingly made in the park all day</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">watch them float downstream candles aglow</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">like thousands of vanished souls</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">or beautiful hopes - for what might be possible</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">please come to Hiroshima</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and bring pictures of your loved ones</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Ron Hertz</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: rgb(16, 24, 32); font-family: Joanna, Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 243);" class=""><div style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 24, 32); font-family: Joanna, Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 243);" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></span></div><i style="font-size: 12px;" class="">We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual “autism.”</i></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 24, 32); font-family: Joanna, Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 243); font-size: 12px;" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 24, 32); font-family: Joanna, Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 243); font-size: 12px;" class=""><i class="">- Thomas Berry</i></span></div>
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