Vernichtung
		Drear Winter hobbles month by month 'til Springtime blooms in shades of gray unceasing drudge drones every day           each after each  undifferentiated day Slate atmosphere oppresses gold on water photo-flashing six-point stars           chapped-cheek decorations                      riding salty flumes stench of suffering and death Summer snow keeps falling...falling Despite unheard-of-numbers           no despot can obliterate           the final human soul.
	Vernichtung - German word meaning      extermination
					This poem can be found posted also on the Poetica Magazine website, under "Poetry and Art."