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Between Museum Piece and Curiosity

     a place preserved in memory
        as if in mystic fantasy
     where revolutionaries farmed and fought
        no time for speeches or dialectic thought

     a place where survival was the goal 
         requiring discipline, stamina, self-control 
     where it was ‘from each according to his ability
        to each according to his needs’…

     a place somewhere between museum piece
                                          and curiosity 
               ~ every Israeli kibbutz in the 1930's
                                        

Copyright © Gershon Wolf

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