My Wake Up Call

Poem By Josie Lenwell

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It’s Junior High assembly hour.
All week we have been studying
 the holocaust
and the blind allegiance
of the German People
to their leader
to their flag
and to their hate
for the Jewish people
and all they deem inferior.