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On the Discovery of Josef Mengele ad2000

Wayne (Scott) Ray
From:   Afterthoughts. 5.2 (Winter 1998/1999).

Good God! They're not dead yet?
The geriatric Jews hunting
those crusty old Nazis
who are too old
to strike the match
that started all this
hatred in the first place!

They must all be well
over one hundred years old,
but don't believe everything
you hear as their
one hundred years of solitude,
of hiding, of tracking, of killing
will never end for
their children will follow
their children and so on and so on and ...
soon, no one will be alive
to stand up for the Afgans
and the Serbians and the
Cambodians and the South Africans
and on and on and on ...

because no one cares
for the Third World nigger
and the back woods,
slant eyed gooks or the
child born and raised on the streets
of Calcutta, the City of Joy.

Wayne (Scott) Ray's works copyright © to the author.


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