- This cannot be Dunkirk.
- Dunkirk is where stukas strafe
- the beach and water as Tommies
- wade out to the trawlors and yawls
- that have come cross channel to take them home.
- There cannot be changing cabanas
- and soft drink vendors at Dunkirk.
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- Arbeit macht frei is still above the gate
- as we are urged onward not by SS officers
- or sondercommandos - by tour guides.
- We are actually free to turn and stroll away
- back to room service and down comforters
- and to our tickets home. In this time
- a journey to this place does not end in an oven.
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- Reach through the decades. Pull them into now.
- Here Reggie, have a beach towel and a citron pressé.
- Samuel, Rachel, walk away from this place where
- you did not die. Live to meet your grandchildren.
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- The Management apologizes for the mistake.
- You were not supposed to be in this water
- on this ground, in those most regrettable moments.
- We hope there are no hard feelings and look forward
- to doing business with you at your earliest convenience.
