FONDANE AT AUSCHWITZ

You were the poet
for our century,
from Romania and France
accused by the nations
as always,
you compose a collection
Ulysses, traveling
in a new language
seized in your hallways
being accused
of being a wandering Jew
then double crossed
in the name of Judas
pretending to be Jesus
put in the gas chamber
as Assuerus in ashes.