“Hiroshima Exit” is a lyric poem by Joy Kogawa, who was born in Canada in 1935. She was relocated to central British Columbia during World War II and spent her time working in the fields. She wrote other poems about Japanese refugees during World War II. The poem’s subject is that people are so concerned about whose fault the bombing of Hiroshima is that they neglected the fact that more than 300,000 people died from the …showed first 75 words of 663 total…

…showed last 75 words of 663 total…the presence of sufficient proof that Afghanistan had anything to do with the attacking. This proves that so many people are just looking for someone to blame so they’d feel more comfortable knowing that ‘it wasn’t their fault’ and ‘justice has been served’. Maybe in 50 years, when they build a World Trade Center memorial, there might be an old Arab couple muttering to themselves ‘Well, they started it’ also, like in the poem.