Bubba Esther, 1888
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This entry contains material that some people may find disturbing.She was still upset,
she wanted to tell me,
she kept remembering
his terrible hands:
how she came, a young girl
of seventeen, a freckled
fairskinned Jew from Kovno
to Hamburg with her uncle
and stayed in an old house
and waited while he bought
the steamship tickets
so they could sail to America
and how he came into her room
sat down on the bed…
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