Do you remember when we were kids back in the 1950’s and they used to have air-raid drills at school? They’d have us all get under our desks for safety. Well, that’s the reason they gave us anyway. I think there may have been a different reason, so I wrote Air Raid Shelter to explain it.
Air Raid Shelter
In school so long ago
The sirens used to blow
Warning us of nuclear attacks
And on our teacher’s cue
Beneath our desks we flew
Believing that the teacher had our backs
Why we sat that way
Dawned on me one day
In one of my insightful brilliant flashes
With H-bomb heat so high
Beneath our desks we’d fry
And that would help the folks ID our ashes
18 September 2010
Steven Pein
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