The Book of Seventy

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48 liSTening To puBlic rAdio La lutte continue . . . 1. Every morning it feels increasingly like the world of the thirties our parents described and we have read about when fascism knew what it wanted and descended over Europe like a light frost that suddenly becomes a blizzard or like volcano ash coughing before it erupts everyone saw it but nobody could stop it or not enough people wished to stop it so nature took its course the book of Job came true the millions and the millions disappeared 49 2. I am like one of those sheep in the hymn sheep may safely graze or a lamb in the psalm the lord is my shepherd when the wolves come growling from the woods of anger and hunger I am not prepared I have no idea what to do I would have been trundled to the camps so easily so without putting up a fight, that’s right I am among the cows trotting farting pissing shitting crowded bellowing toward the narrow gate the metal head restraint the stink up ahead pouring out like a river and after that the stun gun the blade the steel hook the axes ultimately the plastic wrapping that protects the meat from air ...