The overseer and the Kapos
walked through the factory
stopping at every table.
What are they looking for?
someone asked.
Muselmanns,
someone answered.
Muselmanns
thin as skeletons
joints protruding
dead though they still lived.
Too weak to move
to work
to care.
Ordered to Block 25.
Gone with no complaints.
The overseer and the Kapos
walked through the factory
stopping at every table.
Staring.
Their eyes like X-rays
looking through striped uniforms.
Pretended they were not there.
Busy with work.
Thankful their eyes
could not really see through striped uniforms.