"The past tense of “have” is
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“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.””
-
When We Talk About the Holocaust Too Much, Allya Yourish
Published in The Rising Phoenix Review
“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.””
-
When We Talk About the Holocaust Too Much, Allya Yourish
Published in The Rising Phoenix Review
