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[madasacutsnake]

Excellent reading:

Primo Levi - If This Is a Man and The Truce.

If This Is a Man

You who live secure
In your warm houses
You who find
Returning at the end of the day
Hot food and friendly faces

Consider if this is a man
Who labours in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust of bread
Who dies at a yes or a no

Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair or name
With no more strength to remember
Eyes empty and womb cold
As a frog in winter.

Consider that this came about:
I command these words to you.
Engrave them on your hearts
When you sit at home, when you walk by the way,
When you go to bed, when you rise;
Repeat them to your children.

Or may your house crumble,
May disease cripple you,
May your children turn their faces from you.


I have this poem on my fridge - "consider that this came about, engrave these words on your hearts".