Dónall Dempsey - ' ' ' ' ' ' SHACHOR SHACHAR(BLACK DAWN) - TANKAS

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ULLASTRATH (THE DAY BEFORE THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY) Here upon the Boyne’s battlefield...a butterfly moves through history fluttering from death to death as from flower to flower. ******* In the corner of this foreign field the dead – go on dying their undying death a breath of air snaps flags to attention crosses to the horizon. ******* WHAT HAS HAPPENED The train & the heat all the noise the confusion the people’s faces what can’t be grasped here: now –the train...stops at Auschwitz. ******* SHACHOR SHACHAR (BLACK DAWN) Officers request the old nostalgic tunes that bring to mind stars over Germany yellow stars. Orchestra plays Death’s Tango. ******* * 'Heimat, deine sterne'(“Stars Of My Homeland”) popular during and after the Reich. SS officers requested it of the Auschwitz orchestra. The sentimental and the savage bound surreally together. ** The infamous 'TODESTANGO' (an actual recording exists!) was based non the pre-war tango hit by the Argentinean Eduardo Bianco who as it happened entertained Mr. Hitler and Mr. Goebbels in 1939. At Janowska camp near Lvov it took on its cruel grotesque meaning. Dónall Dempsey poemhunter.com/poem/shachor-shachar-black-dawn-tankas/