“I do not find a way to reach the hearts of men.”
\n – suicide note, Stefan Lux<\/p>\n
It was over so quick.
\nOne bang!
\nForgotten so quick
\njust another event
\nin the League of Nations,
\nthe next day
\nafter the blood had been
\nmopped away …..
\nthey went on amending
\nstupending, pretending
\nto be building
\na better world
\nmindless of the message
\nyou hurled
\namong their well-fed midst.<\/p>\n
Stefan. Let me say
\nthat at least I
\na bastard Jew
\nso far away
\nin time and place
\nstill see that bright light
\nshining.
\nThere was no waste.
\nThe torch of those who care
\nburns on
\nthough the pigs at the trough
\nplod on
\nthis alone matters —
\nto see what is coming
\nand to scream
\nthough the whole world believes
\nthe wolf has no teeth
\nto yell with the desire of David
\ncrazed at the indifference
\nof middle class
\nwho now can only hate
\nthose who look just enough
\nlike them. <\/p>\n
Stefan. Know I
\nwill too one day burn
\nlike that bush
\nthose eyes of Moses ….
\nburn to warn – seeing
\nas I do the swarm
\nthe glint here in all
\ntheir eyes – I a spy
\ntrodding the beastly heart
\nof man, governed man
\nknowing well
\ntheir refining ways
\nas they build a better world
\nsugared just right to swallow,
\na better world, meaning
\na better way to do away
\nwith
\nthe Other
\nthose who look just enough like them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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