surrounding populations
move from the blast zone

checking their watches

reminisce when you could see 
the split face where the hatchet fell

in a brilliant engineering move, 
the underground metro was designed to serve 
as both transportation center
and bomb shelter

this is the first world
culture beneath the rubble,
gray men traverse final history
a person in an artificial body.

we are gathered here tonight
at the atull
at nevada

a flood of particles
where the hatchet fell