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Hugo Boss Swastikas Have Been Replaced
And I am one silent cry
over the many thousands of the buried
-Yevtushenko, “Babiy Yar,” in Yevtushenko:
Selected Poems
Trans. Milner-Gulland and Levi, Penguin, 1963
The Hugo
Boss swastikas have been replaced
By another
bit of cloth with squiggles
But the
torches are the same
The
fashionable lies are the same
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