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      WHO HELD THE CAMERA
      SO STEADILY, AND WHY?
      
      Photographs
      at the Holocaust Museum.
      In black and white
      a naked girl,
      maybe six,
      gripped by the neck
      in the hands of a woman
      with huge biceps.
      A mentally disturbed girl
      shortly before her murder.
      Near the dangling girl
      is a photo in summer --
      trees are fully leafed,
      dark smoke pours
      out of one building.
      Down the hall
      a young man with glasses
      takes aim at a man
      kneeling
      in front of a pit of bodies:
      the pistol points at the neck
      so no shattered bone
      will fly his way.
      
     

Last Updated: December 27, 2000