"
You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find, returning
evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is
a man
What works in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for a
bread Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman, Without hair and
unnamed
no more strength to remember
eyes empty and her womb cold Like a frog
winter.
forget that this was:
Remember these words.
Engrave in your heart
When at home because,
bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children. Or have you undone
Home,
illness impede you, May your children
twist their faces from you. "
Primo Levi, If This' Man.
No, I have wrong with the post title. The plural is fine. Because every day should be the days of remembrance of all wars and all the obscenities.
You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find, returning
evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is
a man
What works in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for a
bread Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman, Without hair and
unnamed
no more strength to remember
eyes empty and her womb cold Like a frog
winter.
forget that this was:
Remember these words.
Engrave in your heart
When at home because,
bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children. Or have you undone
Home,
illness impede you, May your children
twist their faces from you. "
Primo Levi, If This' Man.
No, I have wrong with the post title. The plural is fine. Because every day should be the days of remembrance of all wars and all the obscenities.
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