from Research
A number of Jews had to drink seawater only
to find out how long they could stand it.
In their torment
they threw themselves on the mops and rags
used by the hospital attendants
and sucked the dirty water out of them
to quench the thirst
driving them man.
—Charles Reznikoff, Holocaust, 9–10
How might such a poem be read?
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Reznikoff-Holocaust.php
