Archive 04/16/10

   

"Never!"

                                                                  

How is it, today,

That the truth is so murky, fuzzy, blurry, occluded,

For those who lived during the Third Reich,

Despite all that's been alleged, purported, presumed,

Recorded in photographs, movies, oral testimonies,

Documents, museums of artifacts and facts,

Abattoirs, unmarked necropolises all across Europe...

 

How is it, today,

That if hearsay doesn't even pay lip service to history,

That if there once was a legitimate Nazi Party —

A Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Schicklgruber Hitler,

A toothbrush mustache, a flop of hair, a swastika,

A stiff-arm salute to a "Final Solution" —

That spawned a Wehrmacht, a Luftwaffe, a Gestapo...

 

How is it, today,

With all these cues to Überalles aspiration,

That no wartime German owns up to Party membership,

That, to the man, woman, "Never!" is their party line —

"Never!" "Never!" "Never!" "Never!" "Never!"?

And when they're dead, buried, no more, forgotten,

Will their abnegation of the past outlast their ashes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                               

 

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