AuschwitzTattoos, Identity-Theft

As eerily sinister objects go

what possible value could there be

in a crude piece of machinery

designed specifically to etch a

numerical tattoo on the arm of a

prisoner at Auschwitz? Those meant

to be used as slave labour who might

and might not survive their ordeal

and those who had no use of the

mis-identification etching directed 

immediately to the gas chambers. Who

might take pride in owning such a

device with its grisly-grim purpose

other than a museum dedicated to 

memorializing the dead and mourning

the genocidal intent of a people

enslaved to a universally shared

legend of sub-human disposability?

Yet in Israel an auctioneer and the

owner of the diabolical identity-thieving

machinery prepared to sell to the

highest bidder, from Jew to Jew

elicit notice of the abominable anomaly

in objectivity, soulless creatures, all!