Red Snow Poem by George Asztalos

It was in the communist winter in a village of Transylvania
Besides the demented cold also rabies walked the streets
The news was like some dogs broke into pieces a raging fox
And to prevent a mass epidemic
Authorities chose the Convenient Solution:
Let's kill all the dogs of the village
Until the last one
Injecting them with Caustic Acid

I was only a poor kid I did not know what was happening
I took my puppy Bamby and lead him up the hill
For the so-called vaccination

We arrived in lots of wailing cries and barks
Something was burning with much smoke in a large pit
People standing in an endless line
Dogs were terribly frightened
It was a horror landscape at the end of the world

One of the older boys claimed that no
They do not vaccinate but rather
They kill all the dogs
I thought he was messing with me
And we almost get into a fight

When I got close in front
Where dogs were injected the veterinary doctor
Was suddenly bitten by the hand
The snow was red like on The Pig Slaughters
And obviously terrified the assistant was bandaging the doctor

I understood that all the dogs were exterminated
Then throne and burned in that pit

With Bamby all went quickly he was a good dog
Barely barking he cried a bit and that's all

Much later I found out that the odious regime
Had come to power with the same terrorist practices
But applied to people

Otherwise, all went well and cool
Thanks to God we escaped from The Mean
For me and my Bamby
We gave our childhood a proper vaccine