04-29-2024, 02:24 AM
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But of course there was a “why”,
only the SS guard had no soul left
to reason out and explain
the Final Solution marked so plain
in the black uniform with its double lightning bolts,
its death’s head shining bright.
For Stalin, it was create a workers’ paradise,
so he decimated Ukraine with starvation and terror
a paradise that rippled out over decades
all the way to the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge.
Only the uniforms had changed, from the Wagnerian
extreme of the Nazis, to the drab menace
of a plain brown suit and a checkered scarf.
The “why” has followed us for millennia
the sure sign of a fallen world.
So, we must still ask the question.
Death Camp Haiku, April 3
only the SS guard had no soul left
to reason out and explain
the Final Solution marked so plain
in the black uniform with its double lightning bolts,
its death’s head shining bright.
For Stalin, it was create a workers’ paradise,
so he decimated Ukraine with starvation and terror
a paradise that rippled out over decades
all the way to the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge.
Only the uniforms had changed, from the Wagnerian
extreme of the Nazis, to the drab menace
of a plain brown suit and a checkered scarf.
The “why” has followed us for millennia
the sure sign of a fallen world.
So, we must still ask the question.
Death Camp Haiku, April 3