Who is the target audience?

The poem "Bomb" by Gregory Corso is an interesting poem for a variety of reasons. The first reason is that it is a shape poem. The text of the poem is not justified to the left, so the poem takes on the shape of an atomic bomb's mushroom cloud. The first 30 lines are the top of the wide mushroom, and the remaining lines make up the pillar of debris that is shooting up from the ground due to the explosion.
Another reason that this poem is interesting is because it is a satire. Satire is a technique that attempts to expose and/or criticize the corruption or ridiculousness of a person or society. The tools of satire are humor, exaggeration, and irony. A good example of irony in this poem is when the speaker talks about how much he loves the atomic bomb.

O Bomb I love youI want to kiss your clank eat your boom

Corso published this poem in 1958, so this places the poem after the end of World War II and the use of the two atomic bombs against Japan. The date also places the poem in the midst of the Cold War and rising fears of a nuclear holocaust. The world was becoming more and more terrified of atomic bombs, and Corso writes a poem that talks about how much he loves it while mixing in humor about death. Needless to say, the poem was not received well at first.
It is possible that Corso's intended audience was the political movers and shakers as well as the military leaders. That would make sense, because they are the people that have the power to do something about the bombs and rising fears. However, Corso denied that the poem had political significance. He called the poem a "death shot." It is intended to poke fun at people's obsessive focus on the bomb, and potential of death by bomb, when it is way more likely to die in any number of other normal ways. Based on this, it can be surmised that his intended audience is the general public that was living in fear of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Corso is attempting to point out that the bomb is a natural progression of mankind's killing tools. The bomb is simply a new tool designed by humans to do the same thing that mankind's tools for war have been doing for hundreds of years.
I cannot hate you Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe Catapult Da Vinci tomahawk Cochise flintlock Kidd dagger Rathbone Ah and the sad desparate gun of Verlaine Pushkin Dillinger Bogart And hath not St. Michael a burning sword St. George a lance David a sling Bomb you are as cruel as man makes you