Enjoy your cowardly weekend at home, House reprs. Meanwhile, among other issues unresolved, Texas immigration problem is beginning to remind us of history becoming out of control. With so many tragic stories from the 2nd World War, where Hitler’s master plan introduced nothing but sorrow and grieving We might ask how much of history might appear again, especially if the. 2024 administration is headed by a bronze plated madman.
Desperation Breeds Desperation
Europe 1944
Gray days.
Steady downpour.
Transportation frenzy.
Escape smothering captured minds.
Plane…
Ticket counter awash with anxious faces.
Children’s crying eyes,
The elderly with stress wrinkled faces
echoing along the boarding area,
“I just want to see my…”
Passenger planes board the fortunate.
US fighters take off and land.
Train stop…
Old passengers and young prisoners peer longingly
out into the rain swept platform
for greetings, hellos, goodbyes.
The hopeful show papers to
brown shirt police and customs agents.
At the trains’ opening, a girl’s stomach, 8 months with baby,
shivers, soaked through.
A boy’s fingers hold a wet match
to her saturated cigarette.
Brown shirts guard, weapons at the ready.
Boy peers at girl.
Girl adds tears to her already drenched face.
“Vill I see you again?
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Those of us born of the "Greatest Generation." were sheltered from desperation except one of our classmates who lost his father in WWII and became a spiritual after struggling to earn money to help his mother denies. Our grandparents, survivors of the Great Depression, knew it and didn't talk about except my grandmother, Hull. She hated war and probably had lost a suitor during WWI to that meat grinder or the Spanish flu.
Your poetic article reminds me of the fictional short story I wrote of a desperate couple in Mumbai.
Ron