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In his tiny fallout shelter,
\nsinging songs like "Helter Skelter,"
\nTom Thumb sits alone and cries,
\nwondering what decides who dies.
\nIt was late in twenty-eight;
\ninfamy will haunt the date.
\nSkies turned white and mountains tumbled.
\nAll the human race was humbled.
\nNow it’s narrowed down to one.
\nEarth’s new Adam is Tom Thumb,
\ndoomed to live without an Eve
\nin the nuclear reprieve.
\nGenocidal apes at last
\nhave evolved a future past.
\nTom Thumb in his metal box
\ndreams he could turn back the clocks.<\/p>\n

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