Final solution
The Unwritten predominates,
The times of wonder have gone,
We hold on - the wise women drugged
Into submission.
Forensic psychology reveals traces
Of long-forgotten haunted faces;
Which, like Munch's lurid, silent scream,
Degenerate into nightmaredream.
Or, so it seems.
Meanwhile, in population centres,
Desire, in all its lurid manifestations,
Falls into disuse,
All is as it was before:
Footsteps in the snow
On a flat, grey concrete floor:
Krema I at Auschwitz,
Eminently productive procedures are established:
340 corpses burned every 24 hours
This was indeed progress of the sort required
Arbeit macht frei
Weaponising the common man and woman
An act of genius
Monsters exist
Much more dangerous are the common men and women,
Ready and able to act without question,.
Yes, plenty of these in our nation.
John Marks
Sun 8th Sep 2019 00:27
Thank you Adam, Jason and Devon. The approval of my peers means so much to me. Thank you again.
"I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander."
Yehuda Bauer, s peech to the German Bundestag, January 27, 1998