"It is ironical that very nearly everyone glorifies Rome and admires her as the civilizer of the human race, while at the same time very nearly everyone is filled with horror by the thought that a similar phenomenon [Hitler] might appear in our day." --Simone Weil (1939)
the humans, in their wisdom,
find neighbor-foes to fight;
which does not stop them finding
closer bones to pick
for any kind of diff'rence
can be made to blame
the "enemy" bug is fruitful
& the outlook grim
but let it be the thinking
that makes the other strange
quick they clepe it crazy
& all your rights infringe
the Nazis left no symbol
like pink or yellow star
to stand for those autistics
they hastened to destroy
but we're still puzzle-people
a syndrome to prevent
to torture into faking
as otherwise unfit
& made an insult wider
than public'lly we're known
first plied with pills when younger
then after, cast alone
to ponder this jerk circus
from a distant planet's remove
the only ones of the clownfolk
who weren't told how to live
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