Thanks, David, I will check my settings again. I really wish I could figure out what I am doing wrong, all my snaps get mangled :)
Regards,
Larissa
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From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thu, 29 May 2008 3:28 pm
Subject: Re: SNAP: Kalinivka
Larissa
PEtc only accepts plain text so your messages need to be in that. But
it's also worth looking at what the settings are in your e-mailer as I
notice the formatting is out in your prose message too.
Best
Dave
2008/5/29 Larissa Shmailo <[log in to unmask]>:
> Yes,? David, I can't ever seem to format correctly to ETC. There should be
three prose paragraphs
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> 2008/5/28 Larissa Shmailo <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Kalinivka
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>> Kalinivka, Kalinivka: The ground over the mass graves is hard, the soft grass
>> grows. The Ukrainian Guard, boy and girl, make love, happy to be alive. In
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>> collectivized, they walked on corpses. And the Germans alone protest, the
>> father tells the girl. Siberia, purges. Like
>> the Irish, their parents collaborated eagerly;
>> Hitler fought their masters. Now here, Kalinivka. The mass graves crack with
> green life. 1941 is forgotten
>> by the summer of '43. She is 19, pregnant soon.
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>> By 1943, the ghetto holds the few not deported, living in
>> tunnels, basements, caves, the hiding ones, the ones who know. All the
>> rest to camps in Poland, Germany,
>> or dead. The boy no longer likes the girl, but through her, he got his Kapo
>> job. Even his mother says, marry. Have a child. The female Kapo bears a boy
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>> Prymsl, through the unknown tombs of Poland, the unmarked graves, the
>> walls marked with Jewish blood, the bloody broken nooses, the dark rain. She
>> wants the boy to marry her, he makes excuses, says, the Germans won't permit.
>> That the child will die soon after the war, that she will beat her head upon
>> the grave until it bleeds, that sorrow is unknown. The death of the Jewish
>> children is unseen. Poland
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>> Dora
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>> Germany, Harz
>> Mountains. The Germans turn now, now SS. The war is failing. Fewer
>> the slaves to command, the girl, heavy with child, translates, working,
>> starving, carried in rail carts for miles to build the V-2s. A rachitic
Jewess
>> cleans the barracks, the boy's eye turns, with pity, with lust; he gives her
>> bread. From Erfurt to the extension camp, Buchenwald's new Dora, Northausen.
> Here they spare the
>> rope to hang. All are hungry, the Germans too. The Allies bomb the industrial
>> camp. Liberation. Rows of corpses, the eternal rows, line Nordhausen. The
>> Germans are forced to respect the dead. Kalinivka, Pryml, the unseen dead,
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>> here in respectful symmetry, no longer piled in heaps, rectangular, marked.
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>> flowers grow, the burgers sing, "After every December, there comes a new
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>> "The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line."
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>> http://www.myspace.com/larissashmailoexorcism
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