Los Alamos Lyrics

Los Alamos


make a pair of wings for his head
On top of which his hands fold in a
clasp
He looks like Spencer Tracy now
For forty years then Harold Agnews'
life tracked the atomic age
From Chicago to Los Alamos to Hiroshima to Los
Alamos to Lascala (?)
If King Kong, eliciting an audience's sympathies by
representing
a force taken out of nature and abused
The innocent atom
wore a gorilla suit
King is less troubled by capsules in his land
Than by
a rabid skunk in the area that might have threatened his children
And by a
raccoon that commandeers the basketball backboard over the
garage and will
not back off
Well anyway, we put the stuff together the next morning
And
it looked as if the thing was going to go critical
Then Fermet says "Let's
go have lunch."
So we started it all up again in the afternoon
And it
went critical, and that was that
Some men no doubt, will, before sleep,
consider one thought:
"I am alone."
But some, in the mercy of God or
booze, do not
Long stare at the dark ceiling
Nixon's office is much
hotter now
The air-conditioning is missed
Outside, an early
fourth-of-July celebration
Has set off a brief volley of Chinese
firecrackers
By nightfall, the East River will be ablaze with
rockets
Those born in the atomic age will most likely die in the atomic
age
If they do not die because of it
Those born in the atomic age will
most likely die in the atomic age
If they do not die because of it
Those
born in the atomic age will most likely die in the atomic age
If they do not
die because of it
Those born in the atomic age will most likely die in the
atomic age
If they do not die because of it