ELEVEN MILLION HUMAN BEINGS
Wayne Ray
When you opened the restaurant door
and entered the almost empty room,
I could feel the winds of war,
a death draft, doom.
Your life has been the pits,
leading us all to believe it was
only the Jews who died at Auschwitz.
Do your history books not include:
those passing into senility or
those of mental tranquility or
ordinary Poles or Negroes or Commies too,
Ukrainians or Slavs or political dissidents or
non Aryan aliens and gays or
does your book only list Jews?
Six million went up in smoke!
You think the other five million were a joke?
It was my father's army that liberated Auschwitz
but do I flaunt his medals
upon my chest in front of you?
Don't dump your holocaust on my plate,
there really is no one left alive
for you to hate.
