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A Rispetto of the Ghetto

Have you read Pavel Friedmann's "The Butterfly"? I discovered it in a Children's poem book he only rhymes with the words "high" and "goodbye" its imagery gives the ghetto a close look Only dandelion flowers went to seed were we stuck there, we'd not pull them as a weed I painted a sun crying on a white stone a memorial for that butterfly, known

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