Meaning of Genocide
Must a word’s
definition stay fixed now
Forever?
Having stood at Arrivals
And
Selection, the railhead that appals,
As the
significance of Birkenau
Presses home
in its desolate extent,
The dreadful
power of words misused exposed.
But who
decides a definition’s closed,
Or meaning
is particularly absent?
Circumstance
must make a pedant relent
Surely? How
many thousands dying and dead
Before the
word is allowed to be said?
Is it
qualified through stated intent?
Either by
gas chambers or bombs,
Genocides
are as vicious as pogroms.
D. A.
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