"The past tense of “have” is

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via http://ift.tt/28Oragw:
“The past tense of “have” is “ache.”
Used in a sentence: “I have a people,
we are strong;” becomes “there is an ache where family
should be.”
The limitation in the combinations of words becomes
a symbol of language’s failings:
in the communication of
magnitude nothing we could say
will ever be big
enough. There will never
be enough words
for 6 million,
the closest we have is
“Never again.””
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When We Talk About the Holocaust Too Much, Allya Yourish

Published in The Rising Phoenix Review