Sunday, March 23, 2008

revision

Primo Levi was middle class
studied engineering
Clean, orderly forces
Counterforces
Bridges, scrapers of the sky
Some black man invented the elevator
So the people could ride the little cars to the top

Black men in uniforms pushed the buttons
Yes sir
And the people at the top shuffle their papers
Behind smoked glass
No sun, rain, shadow
Only the papers and the insurance companies
Doctors
Psychiatrists and their tribe
Corner offices

That bitch is incompetent
I have to get rid of her
She shakes and weeps with her hands on the keys
The whore, the bitch

Levi became a brilliant thinker
And poet
The Nazis did it
Good for them

Primo Levi fought death for years
Then he jumped from the staircase
Lover



Note: By 2007, The Economist had declared that "a good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument."[14] And in October 2007, the "Last Page" columnist in The Smithsonian stated that when an adversary uses an inappropriate Hitler or Nazi comparison, "you have only to say 'Godwin's Law' and a trapdoor falls open, plunging your rival into a pool of hungry crocodiles."[15] (Godwin's Law, Wikipedia, 1/2/2007)

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