Paul Léon was murdered in 1942,
For the crime of being born a Jew
In Auschwitz concentration camp,
O??wi??cim, Poland.
Paul Léon was James Aloysius Joyce’s friend,
Yes, the Joyce of Dublin & Galway,
Of Trieste, Zurich & Paris,
And, off course, Anna L’Liffey,
She who riverrun on & on,
Even till the Finnegans’ wake.
Joyce had lived in Paris for twenty years
He was so poor but everytime he had money
He paid for everyone in every bar,
He paid for every taxi, every restaurant.