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A Holocaust of Toads

Douglas Holder

As boys-
we dropped rocks
a flurry of bomblets
on a passing phalanx
of toads.

Commanders for once
free from the clamp
of parental constraint
punch drunk
with the notion
of our control
of fate
life
death.

And like
mini Dr. Mengeles,
we experimented
stuffing firecrackers
down their
twitching throats
and watched
with clinical fascination
as the blood
and amphibian skin
amounted to no more
than a small amorphous mess.
Well,
after all they are only pests.

We watched them march
time after time
and we kept
our lethal promise
for their well-appointed death.
So many of them
black spotted, green, gray with white
all that blood
those terminal hues
we were just boys
we were Jews.

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