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The second autobiographical
poem is called "A Night Out"

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and is simply a story
about going to a film,

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to a movie in London.

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"Friends recommended the new
Polish film at the Academy

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in Oxford Street.

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So we joined the ever
melancholy queue of cinema.

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A wind blew faint suggestions
of rain towards us,

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and an accordion.

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Later, uneasy in
the velvet dark,

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we peered through the
cut-out oblong window

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at the sparkling drama
of our nightmares.

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Images of Auschwitz,
almost authentic,

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the human obscenity in close-up.

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Certainly we could
imagine the stench.

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Resenting it, we forgot the
barbed wire was but a prop,

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and could not scratch an eye.

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Those striped victims
merely actors like us.

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We saw the Camp
orchestra assembled.

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We heard the solemn
gaiety of Bach,

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scored by the loud arrival of
an engine, its impotent cry

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and its guttural tracks.

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We watched, as we munched milk
chocolate, trustful children,

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no older than our own, strolling
into the chambers without fuss,

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while smoke, black and
curly, oozed from chimneys.

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Afterwards, at a loft, we sipped
coffee in a bored espresso bar

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nearby, saying very little.

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You took off one glove.

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Then to the comfortable suburb
swiftly, where arriving home,

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we garaged the car.

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We asked the au pair
girl from Germany

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if anyone had phoned
at all or called,

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and of course, if the
children had woken.

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Reassured, together we climbed
the stairs, undressed together,

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and naked together in the dark,
in the marital bed, made love."

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