When dating a Jewess to confess
A certain affection for Wagner
Nazi architecture and those sexy uniforms
"What did the Nazi's ever give us?"
She was wearing her grandmothers
Auschwitz ID number as a tattoo
On her forearm while her knuckles
Turned white around her freshly poured pint
How does a non-Jew answer this question?
"I'll tell you what they gave us..."
Apparently I was relieved of the burden
"They made horror into an aesthetic -
They took away our capacity to feel!"
That IS a war crime if ever there was one!"
I could have argued with that
Because it was wrong on so many levels
But I chose a different tack
"What about the Nazi Space Program?"
She looked at me, stoney faced
"Well, if it wasn't for Wernher von Braun
And his work on rocket propulsion which
Yes, produced the V2 rockets which bombed
London and took many many lives, well
We would never have made it to the moon
Let alone the outer planets, no satellites
No cell phones, no GPS, no bank transactions
No breaking news, no weather report."
Her face didn't change.
"You're fucking retarded," she said
At least I got you off my back, I thought.
© shaun patrick green 2013
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