My grandfather bought a copy of Maldoror

In this city about ten years before the bomb

It was an unusual find or so he told me

He enjoyed Haiku and was searching for poems

When he chanced upon this book

Ducasse is reported to have died of a bad fever

He once told me when I was quite young

But he never compared this to Hiroshima

Which puzzled me for many years

But now I know the reasons why