American Reich

 AMERICAN REICH

The flags of the American Reich

            Fly all across America.

One side is the Stars & Stripes,

            The other,

                        The Confederate crossbones.

Armored personnel carriers

            Patrol the streets of blue cities

And masked men,

            With tattoos on their arms

                        And guns in their hands,

            Stop citizens and ask

                        To see their papers

            Before disappearing them

                        Into American gulags.

Here they came first

            For the brown-skinned ones.

                        Then the scientists,

            Doctors,

                        Teachers,

            Any who knew too much,

                        Any who thought too much,

            Any who wrote too much.

Few listened

            As the spurned prophets,

                        Crying in the wilderness,

            Howled out their horror

                        Of those with

                                    Dust in their souls.

            Now we drown in our own tears.