Best Yom Hashoah Poems

No one makes it through life whole without the
Branding: marks, scars, tattoos that testify
To sorrows endur’d, bitter pills swallow’d;
Some say the inner invisible ones
Wounds deepest.  My tattoo on the forearm
Pierces through to my soul like a sliver
Infected, pussy, smarting constantly—
I was sub-human, thought expendable.
“Schneller!...

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Tonight, I miss God, though I doubt he IS;
All sense of Providence stripped away
Like my wife’s gray smock last time I saw her
Walking naked and welted to showers
From whence the sole cleansing is soul release
From this chamber of horrors which now is
Our life. Dirty Jood...

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Thoughts on Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC 
 
Sam Adams  
Had never been  
To the Holocaust Museum,  
 
Despite the fact  
He had lived  
And worked in DC for decades  
 
One day after he retired 
He...

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