You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find
returning in the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is
a man Who works in the mud Who knows no peace
Who dies a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman, Without hair and
unnamed
no more strength to remember, Her eyes empty and her womb cold
Like a frog in winter.
forget that this was:
Remember these words. Carve them in your heart
When at home because,
bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children.
Or you undone the house,
illness impede you
May your children twist their faces from you.
Primo Levi
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