<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548240" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chicken Soup</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">White haired and gay in London<br> with that determination born<br> of fleeing from Vienna<br> A Jew breaking up her life</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Her echoing flat crammed<br> Zed-beds put-u-ups and bedding<br> in every room and corner Waiting<br> Visitors always Welcome Welcome<br> -<br> The gas and charnel-house<br> taking her family future<br> Remaining bones white-lining paths<br> Crunching underfoot like sea shells<br> -<br> A sister an extended cousin to put up <br> They stayed a while On breezes floated<br> one sailed to America <br> one - hollow-centred - to New Zealand<br> -<br> The cruise ship docking in Southampton<br> to a seventies rail strike Passengers travelling<br> no further home than London<br> filled every zed-bed put-u-up and sofa</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Partied Welcome Welcome for three long days<br> Ghosts of Miriam and Hymie Solomon and little David<br> sharing chicken soup steaming up<br> hovering above each sleeping person<br> -<br> Wresting her body and faith<br> away from Jehovah's blank face<br> She put it into people Welcome Welcome <br> Smiling and laughing fifty years beyond Vienna<br> -<br> Ranked in Golder's Green Red brick<br> Crematorium number four bore the name Gretl<br> Replaced by someone else's twenty minutes later<br> Flocked friends remembered her Welcome Welcome<br> Returning to her home with chicken soup and laughter</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 22Jan1997 CPR</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlotte+Peters+Rock">Charlotte Peters Rock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548240" data-title="Chicken Soup de Charlotte Peters Rock" data-description="White haired and gay in London with that determination born of fleeing from Vienna A Jew breaking up her life Her echoing flat crammed Zed-beds put-u-ups and bedding in every room and corner Waiting Visitors always Welcome Welcome - The ..."></div> </div> </div>

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