CONSPIRACY THEORIES
(To HONOR THE MEMORY
OF THOSE SOULS IN GERMANY,
NOV. 9TH 1938)

In different degrees
of conspiracy theories
these ideas emerge
when the world is cold
and there is no sun
enfolded in new dark ages
where sparks of light fire up
and marks the ignorant
in language of the age
who choose the imbecilities
and phrases of simplicity
rather than confront reality
of a complex time
it's easier to have
the warring authorities
conduct an inquisition
from their position of power
or cower at an auto da fe
or at a Hun burning of books
by an arrest in the Black Forest
than to read between the lines
of a misunderstood crime of libel
toward a Christian Bible
for here on November the ninth
we remember the night of glass
and refuse to learn any lesson
from any politician
wielding a slogan and gun
but stand with the Jews
though we know the cost
for we remember what
the Nazis conspired to do
in the Holocaust.