EINSTEIN'S LAST HOUR

A tolerant visage bearded
in an intolerant age

formulas for death
marches over Crystal Night

citizens lying before you
in village massacres

math used in a final solution
by warring bureaucrats

citizens taken away
and you an exile of the State

and all the Socratic wisdom
in a hemlock

and all dreams and lamentations
daily nightmares of Jeremiah.