Slaughterhouse 6

“Odessa like Dresden one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. It is utterly unbelievable.”—  Gerard Bellaart 
ISOLATEDThe crows scream
and fly to town in whirring flight:
soon it will snow —
happy he who now still has a home! . . .The world — a gate
to a thousand wastelands dumb and cold!
Whoever has lost
what you have lost, rests nowwhere . . .—Friedrich Nietzsche