Belle de Jour
- amolosh
- 47 minutes ago
- 1 min read
Confused by too much reality,
la réalité des faits
—facts' factuality—the situation?
The Doomsday Clock's hands
stand at 89 seconds to midnight,
closer than they've ever been.*
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Ozymandias and Doctor Manhattan save the world.†
Poets should celebrate flowers,
like the morning glory,
belle de jour, with its twining vines.
O my dreaming beauties of the night,
it's we ourselves have got us to this pass,
not knowing what we did—and do—alas.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and other former Manhattan Project scientists. During the Cold War, its Doomsday Clock stood at seven minutes to midnight.
Thursday, May 22, 2025