NEVER...
       

If you're old enough to have watched Shoah;
maybe even clips of The Nuremberg Trials;
shared Elie Wiesel's Night; woke to Celan's
black milk of daylight; wept over The Diary
of a Young Girl; then, like me, you promised

Never again! In Aleppo "White Helmets" search
the rubble for moving arms, legs, fingers. Paris,
London, Brussels, San Bernardino. Our century's
"rough beast" has no den. Re-read Anne's Diary.
Still ok to cry. But not to repeat that lie: "Never"

AGAIN...

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