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Open Poetry #28

Dachau At Dawn

waldopepper
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since 2003-03-18

Posts 157
Tennessee, USA

0 posted 2003-09-11 12:42 PM

A high pitched shriek opens the peace,
surgically precise
once, then again,
twice more the gutting of silence.

Echoing down the spines of the heartless
and the beaten,
godless orgasm crowns horrific solution.

Ruling immune to the realm's cost,
as witnessed by the darkened plumes
that belch the furnace's product,
instigators for the engorged politic
manifest their sins
against Semite and Slovak.

Comprehensive, gory efficiency
strikes the fires that would cleanse
their eternal blight,
masking cacophony to the deaf ears of angels
and the not-yet dead.

Only the soot that lights
upon waters of the Amper
carries the legacy...
of the choice of man.

For the shreik passes abruptly
from Bavarian air,
and the river renews its flow.

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