Half of an Old Woman's Story

It’s a story being told in

French and I can’t make out

 

the specifics. A woman, abducted by the

circus is crying. From what I understand,

 

through the sobs and drunken clowns

is that her father gave her two francs and she

lost them. He’s an artist, possibly a bad one

 

and she’s ashamed of her mistakes

and her birthday dress is torn at the hem

and soon the Germans              here

and soon her handsome French angles

and soon the gas and soon the fire

 

will tear through her             the men will

have no shoes like she saw in her dream,

and one will light a cigarette, she sees him

 

without making a sound, or the other way round

both in full ceremonial dress,

rags     head down     iron cross

 

like old age who tells her grandchildren

about the mud, and the man who held

a finger to his lips and left it there

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

Dementia is a terrible thing.

[Alex J]

Mmmm, not quite. It's about someone hearing a story being told in another language and the speaker not being able to make out everything being said. It's the story of a girl who is taking to a concentration camp and a guard who looks out for her. Thank you for your interpretation of it though, I can see your perspective