December 2003

ISSN: 1076-7975

Oppenheimer

by Leszek Czuchajowski
(translated from Polish)

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Oppenheimer!

Behind his back his friends said
he was crazy when he fled from them
to be a poet,
once the best physicist in the world
and now, when the atomic bomb is almost ready!
Lunatic!

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Leszek Czuchajowski leszek@uidaho.edu is a chemistry professor at the University of Idaho.

"What do you think" is from the collection of poems titled Molecules, Women, Gods and published by the Plus Publishing, Krakow, Poland, in  2002.

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