Prague 1939
She
came to in a
crowd
of faces that
stared
into her.
Shouting
hysterical
failed to
disperse them
as she sat
on the sidewalk
sobbing
defeated
clutching her clothes
bloodied
smeared with
mud and horse manure.
The soldier
looked back
laughing
firing his
machine gun in the air.
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