104. The Curse of the Atomic Age

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”

                                            (Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita)

After the fall of the west

Japan became a pesky thorn in the backside of America.
The allies didn’t want another invasion.
What could be done?
One man had the answer.
A physicist named Einstein.
He escaped Germany
Finding new power in his equations.
The military came.
Einstein’s power was presented to Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer used it to breed radioactive mushrooms.
He became the Los Alamos mushroom farmer.
The metal spores were planted on the island of Japan.
The world changed with their fiery bloom.
A war was settled.
A new curse was brought to humanity.

102. The Holocaust

The rest of the world felt the same pain as America.

Germany inflated.

Things were too scarce

For such a large amount of pay.

A man arose

To blame people for their troubles.

He marched around giving orders to start a new age.

With dreams of an evil race of supermen.

Beware, children, of this man.

Beware the man who marches under the crooked cross.

Beware the man with the banner of soot and blood.

Beware the man with the banner of fire and ash.

He will be the destruction of many.

None could appease him.

None could please him

Without doing gravely evil things.

They offered a sacrifice to this great beast

But his appetite was insatiable.

He took it and only grew bigger.

More beast than man.

He went out and conquered.

The child of Germany observed everything.

He made sure of it

The child couldn’t say anything

For fear of the beast’s fiery breath.

He sent out his minions and gathered the innocents.

Then sent them off to be burned.

“There’s no room for innocent people in my world”

He said as he tossed them into the fire.

“We must build!”

“Build factories of death across Europe.”

“They brought mass production to the car”

“We can bring mass production to death.”

“Gather all people who don’t fit into my world.”

“Burn them.”

“The Jews?”

“Burn them.”

“Catholics?”

“Burn them.”

“Unionists?”

“Burn them.”

“Communists?”

“Burn them.”

“Homosexuals?”

“Burn them.”

“Burn them all.”

“They have no place in my world.”

People were killed.

War was made.

Countries fell to this beast of a man.

98. World War I

An archduke was shot.

The new shot heard around the world.

Weapons were built.

A new war sparked.

Alliances formed.

Germany, Austria, Italy

Russia, France, Britain,

They stood against each other.

Pushed each other.

Never gaining ground.

Monsters rumbled over land

Bringing destruction to lives and property.

The Wright Brothers’ innocent invention turned to war as well.

People lived, fought and died in the trenches.

Both sides bravely faced their bloody stalemate.

Europe became a black hole of war.

Americans preached isolationism

But war came to them anyway.

Lusitania opened the door to America.

A solution finally came.

Mr. Wilson’s pipe dream,

The bubble from his head

Of a perfect world

Happy and peaceful

here nations could bring their problems to a league.

The Treaty of Versailles

Turned the league into reality.

Peace reigned supreme.

The war seemed to be over

For now.

97. The March toward the Twentieth Century

In France a new Napoleon came along after the pear king left.
A word of advice to the people of France,
A pear should never be king.
Another experiment failed
A new empire ruined the balance of power.
The new Napoleon went to Mexico
Bringing his glorious champions
The third Napoleon was eventually kicked out.
The Mexicans had their French champions in their victory meals.
The wars and turmoil in Europe took root in America as well.
The country split.
“Freedom for all or none,” the man from the log cabin said.
Thus began the bloody Civil War.
While Europe dealt with France,
The Confederacy and Union fought for five years.
Vying for outside attention.
The log cabin man’s final sacrifice came on Good Friday in the theater.
He died and was buried.
In a few days he was taken from his grave.
“Do not search for him here”
They said to the mourners.
He died to unify the nation.
Unification became the word that ended the century.
Germany tried and failed once.
Throwing out their king
Reinstating him again.
They succeeded their second time.
Italy, with the impressive Garibaldi,
Came together valiantly in her struggles as well.
Nations settled as the century ended.
Freedoms and rights were given slowly.
The rough-rider,
Teddy Roosevelt,
Came in on his white horse
To save the people of America
From a few small wars abroad
Then cleaned the muck of corporate greed.
His Great White Fleet sailed the world
As he extended a policeman’s arm across the sea.
Ireland got tired of British rule
Britain’s sun started its descent
Following the unsinkable ship
Beneath ice cold Atlantic waters.