After everyone my father:
a) loved
b) left behind
was:
a) gassed
at: i) Belzec
ii) Chelmno
iii)Sobibor
iv) Treblinka
v) Auschwitz
or:
b) shot
i) in their beds
ii) in the street
iii) at worship
iv) in a hiding place betrayed by:
1) a Polish peasant
2) another Jew
3) blind bad luck
or:
c) died of typhus
in: one of (a) above
or: e)died in the boxcar
on the way to one of (a) above
or: __________________ / none of the above —
he never said a word about them.
He carried them all to his grave
as if believing that
closing his fists on their lives without letting a drop:
(a) spill out or
(b) ooze between his fingers
was
(c) the only way to keep
them his.
From The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild
Murray Reiss 