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Copyright © 2007 George Snedeker and Cultural Logic, ISSN 1097-3087 

Poems 
 

George Snedeker 

 

 

HISTORY LESSON 

 

The road to Auschwitz has  

Many steps. 

 

Step one leads to  

Step two. 

Step two leads to  

Step three. 

Each step leads to  

Yet another step. 

 

Before you know it, 

It’s too late. 

The gates are locked, 

And you are standing there naked. 

 

 

 

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 

 

I want to see real executions. 

 

BRING BACK the ancient Druid hanging rights! 

BRING BACK the breaking of men on the wheel! 

BRING BACK drawing and quartering ! 

BRING BACK the burning of witches at the stake! 

 

Spare me the sterility of lethal injections. 

I want to see meat at the end of the fork. 

 

 

 

THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH 

 

The wretched of the earth have gathered in the alley 

To plan the overthrow of Western Civilization. 

They are well armed, 

But not well organized. 

An occupying army protects the middle class. 

My job is merely that of a war correspondent.