Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer had the best hats.
Look at pictures of him—
He looked like Indiana
Jones meets James Dean.
He was always smoking
A cigarette…chicly, like a Parisian.
Some of his hats
looked like mushroom clouds.
He knew how
To wear a three-piece suit,
Should have been a model.
He was much more handsome
Than Ken and not
Made of plastic.
He was real, real as
Radiation poisoning.
— by Jordin Swanson
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Jordin Swanson has an English Degree from the University of Oklahoma and has been writing poetry for 20 years. It’s a lifelong dream for him to be published, and he’s working on his first book of poetry, tentatively called Our Gas Station.
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