New poem, now with text AND audio
The new poem, tentatively titled "Devil Due" is now all recorded and complete. The audio lives here: http://paulielipman.bandcamp.com/track/devil-due
The text is below.
Adolf Hitler's
hopefully rotting bones keep
being exhumed,rattling like a
saw dusted rust sabre and ordered
to dance
His name
a barbed wire pricker bur
cutting the throats of those
still named, numbered, and living
Saints, have not the vanity
for even their own small altars, but the
lesser little beasties want their every single atrocity
carved marble and monolithic
And while I'm sure this wicked little skeleton
chips itself in delight over every
buzzed bald 'Zieg Heil', I
can't help but think that he would like
if his broken surname passed
through a few less lips
That his twisted hall in history
shook only with the names worthy
of his genocide
Mussolini
Amin
Alexander
Pol Pot
Genghis Khan
Caesar
All Hail
I know that we must never forget
but there is a time and place
for necromancy
Evil is evil
but there are varying degrees
and I think it is about time that we
give the devil his due
The systematic slaughter of
millions of a people does not
equal health care reform
The "purification" of the
physically deformed and mentally ill
does not equal higher taxes
An unchecked, Nietzcheian will to power
does not and will not ever
equal politics
The greatest benevolence
and the most sullied malfeasance
do not reside in Heaven or Hell
but are conceived in the human heart
and mind
Both deserve their own Regard
and Perspective
This
is what reminds us that
Petty Annoyance and Cataclysmic
do not intersect or even
share the same trajectory
You can weave
as many failed metaphors as you like
Parade your props
Play Illuminati Connect The Dots until
the cock crows at midnight and you will
still never be right
He
who bestrode this earth
in a pale impersonation of Colossus
now resides in a hole six by six, just
like the rest of us will
The screams of the millions
he sent to the same place and
the spit of their survivors will never
allow his soul to rest
as is their right
But you must now let his name,
bones and banner finally
return to the dirt that they
are worth