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A poem written for Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2012

All German schoolchildren visit the camps; this is Auschwitz II For more information about Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day visit https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/yom-hashoah

Babyn Yar is the Kyiv site of Nazi massacre in September of 1941. Largest single such event in the holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar

All German schoolchildren visit the camps; this is Auschwitz II

For more information about Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day visit https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/yom-hashoah

PERSPECTIVE

In Israel this year
the number of Jews will reach six million

There are other Jews in other lands
but it is only here that you can stand

Put out your hands
palms up and softly cupped

Weigh each as equal
weigh each and say

“This many”

STILL HERE
(Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012)

I was born while you were dying
my birthmark is a blue tattoo

For seventy years I’ve been trying
to remember and forget

There are museums and deniers
there are survivors of survivors

People are still writing poems
the damn thing won’t wash off

FOR IUDITA
(a child of the survivors)

Artists without hands
hold the brush with their feet

Without hands or feet
hold the brush in their teeth

As for me and my friend
all that remains is the navel

And small circles
in the center of
the canvas

Zen Cowboy Poet & Freelance Philosopher