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Jewish Museum


10.19.16 Posted in today's words by

Jewish Museum
By T.S. Hidalgo

<<Olga, a piano teacher:
she was arrested as she left one of her classes,
and then confined to the spacetime mystery
that orcs had created
in her land, Bohemia>>,
one of the tour guides says
(when everything is in flames,
everything has inhuman pain and the power of the sacraments:
there isn´t always a car to take you to the little blue house).
<<Some miracles later,
she thought that she had listened <<During the process>>,
or so,
in front of a black bear:
she was taken to Dachau>>
(locomotive: you moan sudden, shattering madness).
<<One day,
after asking <<Where is my home?>>,
another Jewish girl drew the keyboard of a piano,
with blood and locks,
on the ground,
and since then,
Olga played it
(including vespers and holidays).
She even played with mangled fingers:
the orcs had broken them in front of a sideshow.
The repertoire was mainly Satie,
always at dawn and terribly coordinated,
with soft white skin:
aging is a horror>>.
And while tens of Japs record all this,
the world will keep turning
likenothingwasgoingon.



2 Responses to “Jewish Museum”

  1. devon says:

    Very powerful piece!

  2. Sharon Poch says:

    Unbelievably powerful and gut wrenching.

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