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a moment.

About (re)membering (into the human race):
Rwanda.
Yugoslavia (Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia).
The Balkans.
Darfur, Sudan.
East Timor.
Somalia.

And the names we don't know. The peoples we haven't heard of. Re: membering them all into the human race. All of the names and places, invited back in. This is why the shoa, the holocaust, must not be forgotten.

And don't forget the Western Passage of ships full of slaves.

And don't forget the First Peoples, Nations destroyed in what we now call the Americas.

And all the others, whose names we do not know.

Not forgetting is about taking responsibility.

Not forgetting is about the people whose lives
do not count
as much to some
as human lives do to most.

Not forgetting is about re-membering ourselves among the living.

These words, this story, this poem, this history are why the shoah, the holocaust, must never be forgotten.

Not forgetting is about re-collecting our collective desire for good, peace, harmony.

Not forgetting is about memory for the sake of good, about not forgetting the good because they are dead.

These words are about the holocaust(s). And why it (they) should never be forgotten. This is about how not to forget.

Remember this image-

In Israel, at any given moment, horns beep at intersections the moment the yellow flashing light joins the red light, the signal that a green light is coming. Drivers insist on moving forward, pushing the cars in front of them by creeping up before the green. Cars push through intersections on the other end, too, entering as the light turns red, a perpetual near-gridlock that somehow keeps flowing, however slowly, anyway.

Some of you think this is tangential.
Some of you think this is off-topic. But:

The horns are relentless.
Remembering is relentless.
Not forgetting is relentless.

Pedestrians hurry down the sidewalks, run into and out of shops; they run into the street, cross the street while speaking on their cell phones, stop traffic, ignore traffic.

The pedestrians are relentless.
The living are relentless.
The dead are relentless, restless, forgotten...

(Re)membering them is relentless, rest-less work.

Not forgetting is rest-less work.

This is why the Shoah must never be forgotten. This is how not to forget.

Remember this image:

Drivers and pedestrians signal a desire to keep pushing forward, our drive to get ahead, to be first, not to be late.

On April 22, 2007, however, at 10 am, everything stopped. I sat on a bus in Tel Aviv on my way to work, at a busy intersection. A man got out of

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