Home Thoughts From Abroad - Kristallnacht 1938

Oh, to be in Deutschland

Now that Adolf’s there.

For whoever wakes in Deutschland

Finds some morning, unaware,

There’s a knocking on the apartment door.

The Gestapo says you’re outside the law :

There’s a blinding flash as they break your 
jaw.

In Deutschland -- now.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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