Thursday, February 20, 2014

Musicale Valentine

Usually we take this
perceived reality too
literally and forget it’s
all a Potemkin village
 
another visit by the Red Cross
to the dressed-up concentration camp
where the talented girl violinist
plays Brahms not Mahler
 
but barely a week later
they enter the gas chamber
this thorn in our side
the world is not yet a human place
 
the gods still toy with us
their beautiful invention
and will run us if we let them

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