Exclusive Birth Rights
Exclusive Birth Rights
I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral perpetration
though I propose without any diminution that systematic genocide is not extinct
Armenia and Stalin’s Gulags Bosnia Rwanda Cambodia and Christians and Yazidis
in Syria Iraq today and some say Kurds in Turkey cause killing of culture does not
require a yellow star and one thing unsuspiciously leads to another when origin
is deprived books set to flames as ‘Heinrich Heine’ famously declared that ‘where they
have burnt books they will end in burning human beings’ and thus the Holocaust
Is here today
Berlin today features a memorial of burning books as such a cellar with empty shelves
with a glass ceiling at ‘Bebelplatz’ right at the centre of the city near Humboldt University
for all to see and tread on unless of course on our path we simply just refuse to look
‘Hannah Ahrendt’ spoke of ‘normality of evil’ was castigated for the notion when she wrote and tried to understand of how the Holocaust could happen in her philosophy beyond any scope of disbelief belief but ‘ordinary’ people cremated Jews castrated Roma terminated ‘unworthy’ life disabled so called degenerates injected children for example to ascertain who would survive Potassium Chloride for the longest moments for racial purity and ‘Lebensraum’ for ‘Fuehrer Volk and Vaterland’ syringes inserted straight into innocent
Hearts
‘Wolf Biermann’ sang about his late communist father and that there were no gravestones
for him and many others but neither were they necessary since chimneys were ubiquitous
to be reminded to wrench the guts and feel the smell of ashes to not forgive and not forget
‘Final selection’ left right left right left right left to the chambers of gas and nudity below and beyond the shower heads exuding ‘Zyklon B’ or hydrocyanic acid as pesticide or saved for the moment worked to death in hunger depravation torture senseless loss of humanity
You all know Auschwitz Treblinka Majdanek and Bergen Belsen where human bodies were stacked and shelved to piles and pyramids of rigour mortis for all to see and to ignore
when all ‘they’ did was follow orders did not really know they claimed and did not allegedly
smell the stench of soot and cinders human torches and who remembers Janowska Plaszow Neuengamme the latter not that far away from where I used to live in ignorance but later told how many tons of ashes were recycled on the camp’s nursery to adorn and fertilize the
Rose garden of the Commandant
Without shoes and hardly fed and dressed in threadbare striped clothing in the winter
cold frost bitten white blue white blue white blue the men pushed carts of bricks to be hardened in the process through icy waters barefoot up the ramps for buildings bunkers
War
Industrialists complained that the inmates did not survive conditions long enough in
aimed and stipulated twelve weeks or so and so the Nazis improved conditions so as
to exploit another month or so of slave labour from perishing skeletons in exponential
Depravity
‘Must we remember’ and I thus ventured to see the ‘Burning Books Memorial’ myself
that place with empty shelves for 20000 books given to the fire on 10th of May 1933
but could not find it despite my searching because a trade fair had temporarily covered
up the ‘Bebelplatz’ with exposition of German motoring advanced technology flashy curves of polished metal and sexy fleshy girls promoting motor power seated on the fenders
Mascara shadows touching blonde and blue eyed
Masquerade the holocaust rotten and forgotten and that is when I vomited on the shine
inclusive puke with birth rights denied not so far from where its happening today
15th October 2016
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2016
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