/lit/ - Literature

anyone read the poet Tamiki Hara? He survived Hiroshima and then killed himself six years later by lying down on train tracks.

>Glittering fragments
>Ashen embers
>Like a rippling panorama,
>Burning red then dulled.
>Strange rhythm of human corpses.
>All existence, all that could exist
>Laid bare in a flash. The rest of the world
>The swelling of a horse's corpse
>At the side of an upturned train,
>The smell of smouldering electric wires.