On a freight train bound to nowhere
plowing through kilometers of snow drifts
chugging strenuous but frugal
history gets shipped this morning
from the Babylonian captivity to Eastern Europe
love lost in Poland behind barbed wire.
Belching chimneys of uber alles
new fascists may deny
in Stalingrad steel jaws paid back
I suppose that never happened either,
that Hitler was but a scattered scarecrow,
his critics mostly annoying freaks.
Doest thou wonder that I'm a communist
card-carrying and battle ribboned?
Doest thou wonder how I do it?
My Jewess murdered in Budapest,
I leap to a drowning in the Danube,
on the Volga, I held back.
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