I’ve taken to turning the brightness down on the laptop
and just listening to the news.
Tonight they’re talking mostly about Venezuela,
and the kidnapping of a president
from many different angles.

There are follow up reports about the shooting
in Bondi.

Much later in the bulletin there is a story about
the death of Anne Frank’s step-sister,
Eva Schloss.
She fled Austria with her family for Amsterdam
when the war broke out.
They were sent to Auschwitz
when they were betrayed.

Her father and sister died there;
she and her mother survived.

For many years she apparently couldn’t talk
about the war.
But once she started,
she made it her life’s mission
to keep talking.

I don’t fully know why this story hit me so.
But it did.