The Diameter Of The Bomb
The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimetersand the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a larger circleof pain and time, two hospitals are scatteredand one graveyard.
But the young womanwho was buried in the city she came from,at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers,enlarges the circle considerably,and the solitary man mourning her deathat the distant shores of a country far across the seaincludes the entire world in the circle.
And I won’t even mention the crying of orphansthat reaches up to the throne of God andbeyond, making a circle with no end and no God.

Yehuda Amichai
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