the following words
I do not own
they are seared
memories
from a
doomed orchestra
forced with
blessings
they played
Bach
filling
violins with tears
through
the screams
of trucks
crowded
with a fresh
massacre
accordions
cellos
and a piano
cried
to divert and
deceive
to reassure
in order to suppress
resistance
they played
all night
during selections
for
gas chambers
and Mengele's
experiments
the dead listened
with their cruel faces
silent hearts
and twisted crosses
notes were misplaced
as the
Hungarian convoy
was put in
quarantine
women shaved
and naked
shit
running down their legs
they played
as the columns
were led
to eternity
the mob
filed in
and black smoke
floated
from the chimney
bows caressed
strings
as bulldozers
dumped
stripped
bodies and limbs
into mass graves
living skeletons
hauled away
packed in trucks
wailed
death songs
Bach
healed
where there were no
doctors
or medicine
and
Bach
sent women
running
into
electric fences
Birth sign: Gemini
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