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I sit on Mission St as it crumbles

Fritz Hamilton

I sit on Mission St as it crumbles/ how
much longer, Athena, must I wait for you?/ my
heart, that I shall give you, bleeds in my hand.

The birds sing desultorily hopping through
despair. The seeds beneath them have lost
their sustenance/ Athena, my sweet darling,

where is your song?/ are you singing
it elsewhere ... to someone else?/ are you
just a dream with which the gods torture me?

Are they laughing at me?/Am I their fool?/ am
I the kindling for their derisive fire to send my
love & hope up the smokestacks of

Auschwitz as they pound my drum of
Jewish skin & dine on my soul, who’s one &
last desire is to love you before the

earth cracks open & all is immolated in
its core?/O darling, do not leave me/ we’ve just
begun/ or

is all this the nonsense of a tattered fool?/Should
I pull the door closed & chain me with Francis
to the dungeon wall, as the rats nibble my feet, &

No one
cares ...

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