Axis & Allies - damowords

Crux
The Kremlin’s air grew heavy with the fate
Of Russian empire & Joe Stalin’s fame
As tho stood at the Corinthian gate,
“We must save the city, she bares my name...
Not one step back!”
The motherland’s last hope
Shall beat back the attack, some sumo at the rope.
Many a penal battalion
Ythrust into the battle,
Trapt twixt a foreign machine gun
& the Kommissar’s pistol,
How they charged in desperation,
Miracle survival…
Getting to grips as quickly as they could
Ev’ry second shedding Soviet blood.
The lucky few punctured the lines,
Cold steel coldly applied,
The siren whines, th’assault resigns
& when the blood had dried
One hundred vermin slept breathless but ten schweinhunds
had died.
Stalingrad
October
1942
Nuclear Advent
Einstein has warn’d Rooselveldt directly,
‘The unspeakable fury of the Bomb,’
A project given top priority,
To harness the power of the atom;
Stately support,
Not Bounaparte’s error ‐
“Fulton, how can a boat travel underwater”
To desolate New Mexico
Mid arid Los Alamos,
Best science of the Allies stow,
Clergy of the compound cross,
Blending together all they know
& pitch it on a toss…
Compiling theories & equations,
Creating the ultimate of weapons.
Fifteen thousand tons of silver
Escorted from Fort Knox,
Chance formulae produces the
Radioactive rocks ‐
First controll’d chain‐reaction all the universe unlocks.
Chicago
December
1942