William Heyen – II
Beauty
& if it was/is infinitely worse than this assymetrical suite has even
not never ventured to not say now or ever,
I may be excused by Tanimoto who kept telling himself,
These are human beings, as he lifted the slough-
skinned bodies into his boat. Two sisters were standing
like stalks of charred bamboo in the river,
they were cold on this our first post-atomic evening, the younger
suffered terribly as the salt water ex-
coriated her, she shivered with cold & pain until
dead. In Hiroshima Forever
Michael Parkinson says that Tanimoto as he lifted slimy bodies
was “in touch with inhuman dread.”
Tanimoto touched them he had to touch them he lifted them he
had to never not touch them didn’t he not?
The atrocity of his experienced inhuman dread. The beauty of Tanimoto.
& if it was/is infinitely worse than this assymetrical suite has even
not never ventured to not say now or ever,
I may be excused by Tanimoto who kept telling himself,
These are human beings, as he lifted the slough-
skinned bodies into his boat. Two sisters were standing
like stalks of charred bamboo in the river,
they were cold on this our first post-atomic evening, the younger
suffered terribly as the salt water ex-
coriated her, she shivered with cold & pain until
dead. In Hiroshima Forever
Michael Parkinson says that Tanimoto as he lifted slimy bodies
was “in touch with inhuman dread.”
Tanimoto touched them he had to touch them he lifted them he
had to never not touch them didn’t he not?
The atrocity of his experienced inhuman dread. The beauty of Tanimoto.
