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Conversation with a Survivor - by Erich Fried

translated by Stuart Hood.

"What, did you do in those days that you shouldn't have done?"

"Nothing"

"What did you not do that you should have done?"

"This and that, a few things"

"Why did you not do it?"

"Because, i was afraid"

"Why were you afraid?"

"Because i didn't want to die"

"Did others did because, you didn't want to?"

"I think they did"

"Have you got anything else to say about what youu didn't do?"

"Yes to ask you what you would've done in my place"

"I do not know,

and cannot sit in judgement on you

Only one think i know

tommorow none of us will stay alive

if today we again, do nothing"

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