It has been studied to death and yet
it refuses to die. As heritage moments go
this one has quite the distinguished record
working from the present back toward
antiquity, an ancient malediction affecting
wide-sweeping geographic locations
their populations steeped deep in the anomie
of hateful disaffection of a particular group
living among them but not of them
their very presence eliciting scorn and
claims of psychic violence exemplified
by a people aware of the friability of their
barely tolerated position, seeking to isolate
themselves from spite and harm, becoming
as close to invisible as possible without
entirely disappearing, fearful of provoking
more pogroms as expressions of the esteem
in which they are held by the greater surrounding
population whose passions are known to
spark by a sole irascible claim of Jewish evil.
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