Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....
There's sublime irony
in the North American
television public selecting
both Holocaust and
All in the Family as their
hands-down favourites.
The lovable bigot
is our Everyman,
a symbol whose rantings
all deplore, are amused by
recognize in the other guy.
The Holocaust horror
is the fairy-tale in reverse;
fascinating, repellent,
bearing no relation whatever
to Everyman's foibles.
The one elevated to
delightful eccentricity
the other to a muted aberration,
a fallible error
in human behaviour -
all relating to 'them'.
We're just innocent
spectators in this game
of hunters and hunted;
entertained by it all.
c. 1980 Rita Rosenfeld
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