SHOW TRIAL

How sad to be a victim
of a show trial
sentenced for conviction
by pen,ink and exile

The list is very long
Socrates and Jesus
missed by a few who don't
belong in god's chorus,

Others were hanged
by the Inquisitor's fire
the doors always open
to any Torquemada's ire,

Dreyfus in Paris
church and state defile
won't embarrass the mobs
his fate robbed on Devil's Isle,

Russia in the mad Thirties
samisdat reports on style
Sinyavsky and Daniel
tried by 1966 KGB guile,

But we will not curse
though our hearts break
until we hear the verse
in the art of William Blake.