"Hiroshima Exit" A Poem By Joy Kogawa

A creative video I edited together for my grade 12 English class poetry assignment. Features the poem, "Hiroshima Exit" by Joy Kogawa. Uses archived WWII video footage, documentary footage, as well as still images from a variety of sources. Music source unknown. Best viewed in HD. I hope you enjoy this video as much as I enjoyed making it. (Would appreciate any help in crediting the sources)

Video Editing Program: Sony Vegas Pro 9

Here is the original poem.

Hiroshima Exit
By Joy Kogawa

In round round rooms of our wanderings
Victims and victimizers in circular flight
Fact pursuing fact
Warning leaflets still dip down
On soil heavy with flames,
Black rain, footsteps, witnessings --

The Atomic Bomb Memorial Building:
A curiosity shop filled with
Remnants of clothing, radiation sickness,
Fleshless faces, tourists muttering
"Well, they started it."
Words jingle down
"They didn't think about us in Pearl Harbor"
They? Us?
I tiptoe around the curiosity shop
Seeking my target
Precision becomes essential
Quick. Quick. Before he's out of range
Spell the name
America?
Hiroshima?
Air raid warnings wail bleakly
Hiroshima
Morning.
I step outside
And close softly the door
Believing, believing
That outside this store
Is another door

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[justsomeguy360]

damn, if you ever happen to find out the song please warn me =]

[gurjotsingh5]

this is amazing.. thank you very much

[XxstugatzxX]

WEll done very good editing