WHERE IS MESSIAH
IN POLAND
IN WARSAW
IN THE JEWISH CEMETERY
IN ONE OF THE TOMBS
A WOMAN GAVE BIRTH
HER ONLY ATTENDANT
THE CARETAKER
WHO WAS HIDING TOO
HE SAID
PERHAPS THIS ONE IS THE MESSIAH
BORN SO LOWLY
DESPISED
AND SPIT UPON
PERHAPS HE IS THE MESSIAH
THE CHRISTIAN MESSIAH
HAS BROUGHT US NO PEACE
BUT HE WATCHED HIS DREAM FADE
AS THE CHILD
SUCKED ON HIS MOTHER’S TEARS
HER BREASTS WERE DRY
THE CHILD
SUCKED ON HIS MOTHER’S TEARS
AND DIED
EVENTUALLY
THEY WERE FOUND
AND WENT UP IN SMOKE
THE NEARBY VILLAGERS
SMELLED THE SMOKE
AND KNEW WHAT IT WAS
THEIR HOMES STANK OF IT
THEY CALLED IT
JEWISH PERFUME
IN A WORLD
STILL PLAGUED
BY WAR
HUNGER
AND HATRED
CAN WE NOT SAY
WHERE IS MESSIAH
FRANK A VOLLMER
SNOW
FIFTEEN THOUSAND CHILDREN
WERE INCARCERATED
IN TEREZIN CONCENTRATION CAMP
ONLY ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO
OF THOSE CHILDREN
WERE KNOWN TO HAVE SURVIVED
LIKE SNOW THEY FELL
GRAY SNOWFLAKES
BLANKING ALL AS SNOW WILL
THEY WERE BITS OF SKIN
INCINERATED SKIN
THAT THE CHIMNEYS
BELCHED FORTH
LIKE A SNOW MACHINE
ON A SKI SLOPE
BUT SNOW NEVER SMELT
LIKE BURNT FLESH
SNOW WAS WHITE
LIKE THE FAUX SNOW
AROUND THE CRÈCHE
WHERE THE CHRIST CHILD LAY
BEING SERENADED
WITH STILLE NACHT
THE CHRIST CHILD
THE KING OF THE JEWS
WHILE HS SUBJECTS
WENT UP IN SMOKE
SILENT NIGHT
SILENT NIGHT
WHILE HIS SUBJECTS
SCREAMED LOUDLY
WHEN THE SHOWER TURNED DEADLY
CAN WE BLAME THOSE
WHO CREATED THIS SHOAH
CERTAINLY
BUT TO BE FAIR
WE SHOULD ALSO BLAME THE CHURCH
THAT PREACHED CHRIST KILLERS
FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS
RELIGION
WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO HELP MAN
LIVE IN RELATION
TO HIS BROTHERS
SO OFTEN
SHOWS HATE
IN FACT
THE FIRST RELIGIOUS SQUABBLE
WAS WHEN CAIN KILLED ABEL
THE JEWS WERE CONSIDERED
A NON-PEOPLE
CURSED BY GOD
THEY WERE A HANDY SCAPEGOAT
WHEN THINGS WENT BAD
FROM INDIVIDUALS UP TO THE STATE
THEY WERE SCAPEGOATS
WHEN THINGS WENT WRONG
THEY WERE THE LEAST
IN CONTRADICTION TO CHRIST TEACHING
THEY WERE NOT TREATED KINDLY
BUT AS CHRIST’S BODY
THEY WERE
BEATEN
STARVED
KILLED
BURNT
WHILE PIOUSITIES
POURED OUT
FROM PULPITS
THIS IS MY BODY
FLOATING IN THE AIR LIKE SNOW
THIS IS MY BLOOD
BEATEN FROM MY BODY
AND THE EARTH CRIES OUT
WHO IS MY BROTHER
RACHAEL'S CHILDREN
IS THERE EVER A GOOD TIME
FOR GOD TO BE BORN
IS THERE EVER A TIME
THAT WILL NOT CAUSE PAIN
HE OFTEN THOUGHT THESE THOUGHTS
SITTING WITH THE WOMEN
WHOSE CHILDREN
HEROD HAD SLAIN
A THING HE DID OFTEN
ON HIS BIRTHDAY
OH NOW THEY WERE CONSOLED
YEARS AND A LIFE LATER
DON'T COME THE TEMPTER HAD SAID
OILY VOICED AS USUAL
PRAISING EVIL NOT AS BAD BUT GOOD
OR EXPEDIENT
DON'T COME NOW
BUT THE EARTH WAS GROANING IN LABOR
AS THE EARTH
IS ALWAYS GROANING IN LABOR
THERE IS ALWAYS NEED
FOR GOD TO BE BORN
SO THE WOMEN WERE CONTENT
TO BE IN HIS PRESENCE
BUT EACH ONE FELT
A HOLLOWNESS OF YEARS
THAT HE COULD
BUT COULD NOT FILL
NOR CALL BACK
THE WAIL OF RACHEL
THE WAIL OF RACHEL
FOR HER CHILDREN
