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Chicken soup

White haired and gay in London

with that determination born

of fleeing from Vienna

A Jew breaking up her life

 

Her echoing flat crammed

Zed-beds  put-u-ups and bedding

in every room and corner  Waiting

Visitors always Welcome  Welcome

 

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The gas and charnel-house

taking her family future

Remaining bones white-lining paths

Crunching underfoot like sea she...

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