I sent greetings to the Chinese and the Hindus and the Africans.
I wished that I might live to see if the bombs fell
and what the people did afterward.
Then I appreciated that, following any resolution of such affairs—
of bombs or none, airborne plagues or none—
I would wish in this same fashion to live to see
what they did
when a billion starved
when four or five billions, produced in the uncontrolled birthorgies of the devout and the innocent, over-horded this little globe
what they did when the metals ran thin—in a century or so