the aetiology of genocide
a bonfire of living screaming children
bundled up in rope and burnt alive
whose screams are louder ?
the mothers, forced to watch having earlier left their kids to be "looked after"
just edge it for pitch and volume
girls as young as ten raped pregnant
Kurds buy the best looking Christian teenagers from the Turks
virgins cost ten-fold the price of the had
two year-olds picked up by the legs and smashed cricket bat style
head first into a pile of bricks where the family home once stood
by who?
by soldiers under official state order
whole families ring fenced in wire
pushed off the banks of the Euphrates into the wash
a bullet to just one floating head
the dead sinks the living and turns them dead
it's economical see!
mighty rivers, the Tigris and Khabur too
are forced to change course
tens of thousands of corpses divert the rapids
the new water course stands true today
hundreds herded into desert caves
fires light up and block the entrances
smoked alive
the original gas chambers
it's 1915
out here in the Syrian sands
and there are Westerners too
busily laying track for a new Berlin to Baghdad link
from the Med to the Black sea dozens of railway lines got here first
transporting human cattle to the end of days
the Allies are fully aware
British and US journalists see with their own eyes
women half human half dead
stripped naked and forced to negotiate the sands alone
three months back
wide eyed and hagged
the lucky ones
Churchill, Lloyd George, The Times, The Foreign Office
all denounce the atrocities
then, and here's the thing, we turn a blind eye
and walls of silence descend
why ?
to fight the Nazis we need Turkey as a friend
think of all those new German recruits down in Asia Minor in 1915
watching and learning
not just how to mass produce murder but with Britain looking the other way, how to make off
"unseen"
Britain - that most diplomatic of empires
exonerating river fillers, cave burning serial killers
between one Christian and another what's a little denial between friends ?
who cares if the means are justified by the ends ?
one and a half million deleted
yet not one ounce of acknowledgement let alone guilt secreted
by 1930 baby-faced railway navvie turns SS leader oh so savvy
hear Hitler's cries re: his final solving dream;
"No one will remember the Poles. Who remembers the Armenians of 1915 ?"
yes Auschwitz and Dachau make me speechless and cold
did any soul really survive such living hell ?
but there's a lie in the story
on top of all the above
a lie aswell
is there no end to Imperial guilt ?
no absolution ever came from pulling the wool
evil will compound until they look me in the eye and tell
the Holocaust that you know was a reaction
not the starting bell
Hitler was a hangover
his night-before cocktail ?
a spiky little number
some call it "Death on the Beach"
others "The First Holocaust"
take one shot of Versailles and mix it well
with Asia Minor in 1915 and British defeat at Dardanelles
Israelis run and hide
this is the real aetiology of genocide
GK
(copyright)
from the "Cry Me A River" collection
a bonfire of living screaming children
bundled up in rope and burnt alive
whose screams are louder ?
the mothers, forced to watch having earlier left their kids to be "looked after"
just edge it for pitch and volume
girls as young as ten raped pregnant
Kurds buy the best looking Christian teenagers from the Turks
virgins cost ten-fold the price of the had
two year-olds picked up by the legs and smashed cricket bat style
head first into a pile of bricks where the family home once stood
by who?
by soldiers under official state order
whole families ring fenced in wire
pushed off the banks of the Euphrates into the wash
a bullet to just one floating head
the dead sinks the living and turns them dead
it's economical see!
mighty rivers, the Tigris and Khabur too
are forced to change course
tens of thousands of corpses divert the rapids
the new water course stands true today
hundreds herded into desert caves
fires light up and block the entrances
smoked alive
the original gas chambers
it's 1915
out here in the Syrian sands
and there are Westerners too
busily laying track for a new Berlin to Baghdad link
from the Med to the Black sea dozens of railway lines got here first
transporting human cattle to the end of days
the Allies are fully aware
British and US journalists see with their own eyes
women half human half dead
stripped naked and forced to negotiate the sands alone
three months back
wide eyed and hagged
the lucky ones
Churchill, Lloyd George, The Times, The Foreign Office
all denounce the atrocities
then, and here's the thing, we turn a blind eye
and walls of silence descend
why ?
to fight the Nazis we need Turkey as a friend
think of all those new German recruits down in Asia Minor in 1915
watching and learning
not just how to mass produce murder but with Britain looking the other way, how to make off
"unseen"
Britain - that most diplomatic of empires
exonerating river fillers, cave burning serial killers
between one Christian and another what's a little denial between friends ?
who cares if the means are justified by the ends ?
one and a half million deleted
yet not one ounce of acknowledgement let alone guilt secreted
by 1930 baby-faced railway navvie turns SS leader oh so savvy
hear Hitler's cries re: his final solving dream;
"No one will remember the Poles. Who remembers the Armenians of 1915 ?"
yes Auschwitz and Dachau make me speechless and cold
did any soul really survive such living hell ?
but there's a lie in the story
on top of all the above
a lie aswell
is there no end to Imperial guilt ?
no absolution ever came from pulling the wool
evil will compound until they look me in the eye and tell
the Holocaust that you know was a reaction
not the starting bell
Hitler was a hangover
his night-before cocktail ?
a spiky little number
some call it "Death on the Beach"
others "The First Holocaust"
take one shot of Versailles and mix it well
with Asia Minor in 1915 and British defeat at Dardanelles
Israelis run and hide
this is the real aetiology of genocide
GK
(copyright)
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