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*This piece was written for class assignment to write a short piece of fiction based on The Comet by W. E. B. DuBois in which two characters survive the end of the world.*

Vaccine Day Diary Part I

There is a Yiddish insult that goes something like, "May a small child be named after you shortly." The reason behind this zinger is that in the Jewish traditon, it is common to name babies after a deceased realitive.

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul
I say that the moon is the eye of the world
The convex back of a bowl.

She gazes down at me from on high
Cold but caring, filling my room with silver light

The witch walks up to her funeral pyre
White gown, swaying, the chaplain, praying
The executioner lighting the fire.
Her crime is something quite obscure
Perhaps poisoning the neighbors' cat

Yom HaShoah
The remembering day.
The day we repeat to ourselves, to comfort ourselves, to remind ourselves,
“Never Again.”
Today I remember that day in the seventh grade where I sat on the bus and listened to the radio