I'd been next door at Auschwitz.
The tea is rather good.
The conversation is intelligent.
I came back with a rush,
my coat fully-buttoned still.
I sat down in a shudder
and made some jokes and coughed,
everyone inside laughing
was pleased at me restored.
I told them how things were;
that photographs provide evidence;
how tongue slips are strong hints.
Fresh food was brought. Coffee.
They don't have that there, do they?
One has to agree, always.
I drank. Greedily. I ate.
I'd got home now. I roared.
Together, we all made noise.
--
"The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
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‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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