MAY 3, 2024 GAZA A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR MIGHT MUZE GAZA Where is the pogrom here, we were the real survivors, the ghetto were at our backs, not this small GALILEE; (WE DON’T COMPARE) Night trains stole away, against moonless dark skies our ghost-like shadowy forms, toward BUCHENWALD We were butchered in the heart, our children pierced in the streets, not this Delilah missile dropped on dusty sandled schoolboys at soccer: (WE DON’T COMPARE) THEN, a frenzied black-booted, dictator circled the terrified, barbwired the psyche in ovens, killed, and killed. not small fire pouring from Jehoavuh’s sky (WE DON’T COMPARE) We were skulls, bones, soulless skeletons, praying for our death, not the feeble wails of Galilee mothers, this: (WE DON’T COMPARE) Go down Moses, GO down there, can you see the sea is it red Moses is it red Moses IS IT CHRISTOPHER ELLIS Groundcover vendor No. 483 GROUNDCOVER NEWS 5 RED. Author’s note: I trust that this poem will be received in the spirit, conscience and humanity in which it was composed. There is no attempt to ostracize any part of our collective humanness. It is solely an artistic endeavor to speak about our oneness, with a view toward unification and the betterment of all peoples and races. exp. 01/31/2025
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