Tattooed Butterfly

She's becoming part of the order of the tattooed butterfly she has ceased to speak has four metal wheels for feet A chorus of numbers on her arm will forever chant to her inner being they'll whisper to you everything you don't really want to ever know. She graduated summa cum laude at the University of Auschwitz, with a bachelorette degree in "work will forever set you free". many others dropped out-leaving their chrysalis behind herded into gas chambers-becoming tattooed butterflies turning into clouds...…...stories never survived ashen raindrops...................crumbling psalms tapping on faces...…………………….truth becoming fable a thinning and gleaning of ages endless brutality becoming art She finally left the flesh behind became a tattooed butterfly her tale will not survive time never embalms it crumbles all things truth becomes opaque a cleansing of the stable as brutality is re-labeled art It then becomes a weapon of...…………...grand...…………..denial ~ ~ ~