Spiral Logic IV Debate goes spiral (4/4)

            Here’s the whole of poetic message I sent to Barack Obama, prior to his visit to Hiroshima this year (in 2016). He offered flowers without an official apology.

POETIC JUSTICE, PLEASE

Hiroshima was A-bombed.
We thought that was enough.
Wrong. Nagasaki was A-bombed again.
They thought an A-bomb wasn't enough.

We lost the war, lost the flag.
We didn't hit back, We just apologized.
"We're sorry. Won't happen again."
They won the war, and proudly said "We got them.”
”The A-bomb saved more people's lives."
Which lives? Their lives.

We were sad and cried. They were glad and laughed.
We gave up our tradition. They gave us democracy.
Everyone thought the war was over.
Wrong.
They gave us military tribunal.
"You had this coming." Military justice got us.
We lost face. We had none to defend our case.
Patriots were hanged as criminals. Humiliated.
Killed again in the name of humanity.
We pleaded, "Your honor, is this revenge?"
They said, "No, Justice."
Why? Because they won the war.
We don't want military justice: We want poetic justice.
Poetry doesn't kill. Poetry heals. Justice kills. Justice doesn't heal.

Justice kills, Poetry heals.
Justice kills, Poetry heals.
A poetic apology from a President of the United States,
would heal me, the Japanese, and those who seek a nuke-free world.

by Michihiro Matsumoto
Samurai poet with a wounded self-esteem

            It is with mixed emotions to offer you two contradictory logics: straight logic and spiral logic.