Birkenau

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Today, cars drive
Past Birkenau.

As you look past the barracks,
You can see cars cruising by.

Tourist walk
Vandals graffiti in the barracks
People talk
Cars drive by

Many of the buildings no longer stand.
The gas chambers have been blown apart
The ashes
Are no longer visible in the pond,
And cars drive by.

How eerily awful it is
That the world seems to move on
And the voices of the dead
Lay silent and silenced.

07/18/23

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