04-16-2025, 09:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-16-2025, 10:18 PM by RiverNotch.)
I would note, the New Testament is explicit about Jesus expiring before the customary breaking of the legs, as one of the prophecies from the Old Testament -- I think it's from the Psalms, but it may also be from the Pentateuch, as it's those books with all the rules on sacrifice -- notes that not a bone of his was to be broken.
When the fall of an empire is seen
as a greater ill than the disenfrachisement,
displacement, and later disintegration
of much greater than six million---
in '33 were Hirschfield's archives burned
as Dachau camp was built,
in '38 was Czechoslovakia raped
as Kristallnacht was perpetrated---
then, perhaps, it's not the case
as it is its cold-hearted recipient
which should distress, what kind of man,
what kind of poet, would think that to end
such horror as ended Radnóti or Frank
should somehow be contingent?
When the fall of an empire is seen
as a greater ill than the disenfrachisement,
displacement, and later disintegration
of much greater than six million---
in '33 were Hirschfield's archives burned
as Dachau camp was built,
in '38 was Czechoslovakia raped
as Kristallnacht was perpetrated---
then, perhaps, it's not the case
as it is its cold-hearted recipient
which should distress, what kind of man,
what kind of poet, would think that to end
such horror as ended Radnóti or Frank
should somehow be contingent?