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Lidice<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On June 10, 1942, the German government announced that it had destroyed the small village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, killing every adult male and some fifty-two women. All surviving women and children were then deported to concentration camps, or if found suitable to be “Germanized”, sent to the greater Reich. The Nazis then proudly proclaimed that the village\u00a0 of Lidice, its residents, and its very name, were now forever blotted from memory.\u00a0<\/em>Holocaustresearchproject.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em> With each slowed down massacre With each decade Lidice moves a yard further from the surface. Tell me that the ride to Lodz for the children was short, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n With five collections of poetry focusing on conflict Antony Owen<\/strong> is a well respected writer known for investigative poetry which took him to Hiroshima in 2015 to interview atomic bomb survivors. His subsequent collection, The Nagasaki Elder<\/em> (V.Press) was shortlisted for a Ted Hughes Award in 2017<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lidice On June 10, 1942, the German government announced that it had destroyed the small village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, killing every adult male and some fifty-two women. All surviving women and children were then deported to concentration camps, or if found suitable to be “Germanized”, sent to the greater Reich. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17535,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions\/17535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWith each sped up massacre
\nbirds shot out from trees with each shaking luger,
\nlet me report the apple orchard of drunk soldiers and wasps,
\nlet me edit out the keen underling inebriated on cleansing a whole town.<\/p>\n
\nI see men in rows of ten queue to meet their unmaker,
\nI see children humanised then germanised then heavenized.
\nLet me edit out the beautiful daughter now gargoyle of the cruel miasma.<\/p>\n
\nTake my hand and walk us in single file to the orchard trees,
\ntell me that fascist butchers are ashamed of their meat,
\nhow they rush bury the remains and guilt eats them.<\/p>\n
\nthat they never slept in their urine on gestapo floors,
\ntell me that their faces never went haggard in fog,
\nshow me that all the things I know are too evil.<\/p>\n