And here I was expecting a song by Flash And The Pan. Silly me.

1 nostalgia point to you for remembering them. :D

Well I HOPE WW3 never happens!
I no wanna see Mushrooms sprouting!

I agree, this world already took too much damage from the second one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbHK11sgqY

I was so glad to see the date. If you had just written this I would have punched you SOOOO HARD!

Nothing like Cold War young man's angst. I was there, too.

reminds me of a book by the same name. different genre though.

I very much enjoyed this piece. I flowed nicely and you gave it a fitting illustration. Felt like I was reading a darker one of Shel Silverstein's pieces. Very well done

"They irradiated their own planet?!"

- Quark, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"

Holy fuck that was powerful. I know it seems juvenile to you now but I think it's saying a lot of important and deep stuff you were feeling back then and still feel now, although I'm sure with the passage of time the message is edited.

I think it strikes me because it reminds me of some of my own poetry. I have a feeling you'd enjoy a few of the ones I've got. What I enjoy most about mine though is that they are rather conflicting, I feel like a damn Robert Frost when people start arguing over what it could possibly mysteriously mean.

Sung to the tune of Cold War Blues.

Which if you think about it very apt, given thats the colour of the Cherenkov radiation given off by the remains of civilisation.