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Excerpt from the Book of Collected Holocaust Poetry, Unworthy Lives, Published 2004, Pages 71-72.


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Sadness In his second millennium of donkey years,
Lazarus watches Michavelli losing his cerule chair,
writing the primer of political deceit:

Watches a boy, born in the Caucasus,
studying for a priestly life,
naming himself steel: using Michavelli's primer:

Appointing himself the saving proletariat,
to starve and destroy one million Kulak farmers
in the guise of saving their unworthy lives:

Watches this re-incarnated monster spirit
slaughtering more of his own countrymen,
than all the invading armies of history,

bringing human life to history,
as history is to chaos:
Watches Mozart rising from a lost pauper's grave,

whispering requiems into the hearts
of captive slave musicians at Auswitz:
Playing for the thousands

of Jewish schoolgirls, mothers and grandmothers,
marching through the leafy tunnels
into the murdering gas and crematorium:

Dismissing six million people's destruction
with a paragraph,
in a bureaucratic Nazi archive ...



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