The poem begins with the image of the “New Hiroshima”: “Cheap movie theaters, saloons, fly-by-night markets, burned, rebuilt, standing, crumbling, spreading like the itch – the New Hiroshima…already visible all over the place, in growing numbers, billboards in English; one of these: “Historic A-Bomb Site” ”. Sankichi describes the New Hiroshima as a “cheaply” rebuild place and how lightly the government is handling the aftermath. He uses strong words such as “Standing, crumbling” which suggests that the wound is not stay covered up with the cheap things and one day the city will crumble and the truth will be seen. Later on in the stanza, Sankichi delineates the foreign billboards all over the place and propose the fact that too many view Hiroshima
