DANIEL FALB

Going on my bicycle
to a chamber music concert
at the Gardiner museum
after soccer and lemon sole
changing my mind
by jogging
along the Boston waterfront
to view the new home harbor's
seashore business development
and here by the Fine Arts
to enjoy the Jewish remnants
of the few last Rembrandts
of the Dutch ghetto left
and to enjoy
the only Vermeer around,
then it happens
in every civilization,
they're back
the vandals quickly take over
with the higher ups
of an inside job cooperation
just as in the Netherlands
during the occupation
the Gestapo enjoyed the most
searching for any art
they didn't appreciate
yet they would get a reward
as in Anne Frank's attic,
so they could boast
and toast to fascist pride,
these eternal thieves.