The Grey Man Dances*

WOT LARX!
we shall have
when the Holocaust is over
Unter den Linden,
raking among the coals...
when all of our consequences
may be little teeny ones...
Oh! Won't we fructify!
Won't we replenish the earth!

Grub through the cinders,
drag out the picnic hampers,
charred but intact; the wilted plasticware
still serves

and the twinkies are sweating in their wrappers...

WOT LARX!
in the ashes
Dance!
Really rattle those bones!

*from a painting by George Grosz

01/02/2008

Posted on 01/02/2008
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