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The Thing

The things of which we cannot speak
Make us become we cannot say
The thing brought back from yesterday
That praised the strong and crushed the weak

That thing whose name we cannot name
That fathers fought to keep at bay
The thing we thought had gone away 
Now clothes our parliament in shame

Klaus Barbie made their king of spies
Elon von Braun their rocket man 
Never more true American 
A new Gestapo in disguise 

As Gaza’s child lies in the waste-
land made by AngloSaxon bombs
From Mariupol and from Homs
The empire script is cut and paste

Old England sees a child as bad
And Gazan children were the worst
For pious butchery they thirst
In sanctimonious garments clad

We stretch barbed wire around our hearts
We tar the untermensch with lies
O Ichabod! the prophet cries
From you the glory now departs

Cruel and inhuman songs they sang
Again the human turned cyborg
London is come to Nuremberg 
And from her ropes shall rulers hang

Copyright © Hatter Eggburn | Year Posted 2025

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