Songs from Two Continents by Moris Farhi

Author:Moris Farhi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780863568763
Publisher: Saqi

After Auschwitz

I have tried

like all fools try

I have tried

as best I could

to understand

surrendering

the courage to forget

to

memory’s fury

I have tried very hard

here I try again

pen

paper

pencil

typewriter

words

alphabet

language

wisdom

their common link?

Communication

I know a secretary

who bites her pen

Another

who masturbates with a pencil

I know a journalist

who delights in raping virgin paper

Another

who charades crucifixion

and believes he is a saint

I know a scholar

who spits words

other people’s

and a child

who hurls the alphabet

afraid

in revelation

I know

Hitler had a language

and it is claimed

he could ejaculate

I cannot

believe that

I know

each century

one man has wisdom

each century

only one man has wisdom

that man they say died in Auschwitz

but I refuse

to believe it

for I try to be that man

I have the answer

like every fool

I have the answer

love is wisdom

wisdom is love

who in Auschwitz

except the exterminated

could have known about love?

But who

on earth

could not have known about Auschwitz?

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