Mr Pig21 Jul 2003

I understand your point but this was one of most brutal, fascist and mass genocides the world has seen in a so called 'civilized' world. My life experience cannot be ubiquitous with every event that has ever taken place. I am aware every country has its secrets it would rather hide, the british empire was a brutal regime, so were the Americans in destroying the native indians, the serbians and kosovans, the treatment of allied POWS in concentration camps. I have seen a very interesting true film of a jew hating jews called 'The Believer' if you ever get chance watch it. However you cannot argue that jewish children and infants too young to understand religion or politics and megalomaniacs deserved too die? How as an American did you feel to the Arabs hollering in the streets celebrating the death of the tragic people killed in September 11th? Millions of Somalians die and received next to zero news coverage, yet September 11th dominted the world stage and journalistic events for months and months so I wonder how they feel. I am ashamed to be British sometimes, patriotism is a jaded religion for the common man, you and I are priveleged and owe our liberty to all fallen in whatever war big or small. I have nothing against Jews they have not wronged me (yet) but this poem is about the human condition, courage under unbearable suffering not about a top 20 spot on poemranker.

If you tell me what you find incomprehendible I will be glad to explain, this poem took the longest to write than any other I have ever written.

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