Anny said she wanted her Sunday poem. After watching last night's brilliant
TV music memorial for those who died at Auschwitz it has to be this one.
Bruno Bettelheim had the insight that some children experience their own
internal holocaust in childhood damaging their personalities irrevocably.
Mine happened early.
Appalling
Old men, who should know better,
Sidle up to me and say:
Young men, who should know better,
Sidle up to me and say:
`Adolf had it right about the Jews.'
Six million columns of smoke-dust
rise from this century
and they ask for more.
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
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