Who'll Wash The Dishes

[abu nuwas]

I very much like Ca ne fait rien's interpretation. Mundane objects with battle scars and the real story. Very astute.

I have held empty leather shoes, pieces of prison cloth, a salvaged scroll from Kristallnacht, and a few other so-called artifacts from the holocaust as well as helped clean up a town wiped a tornado wiped off the map (Carrier, OK). It is an experience I really can't articulate, hits so deeply words are inadequate, but the soul never forgets.

Crikey! I once had to deal with the affairs of a woman who had been through it -- though mysteriously she and her husband had got out of the camps, and come to England.

I big envelope or parcel arrived, and when I emptied it on my desk, there were just such articles --- but the one which stood out, as I handled it, was a rough-hewn 'J' with coarse rope, to be worn around the neck. It is v curious how affecting an object can be.