A Swastika Song (Mixed Feelings)

Would you love a Nazi
If you had to choose
Between a living Fuhrer
And the dying Jews?

I don't love the Nazis,
Goebbels was bad news,
But the murder of the Fatherland
Is giving me the blues.

You may think me crazy
But what have I to lose?
I'm trapped by your hostility
And an angry German muse.

(this poem is about the conflict between guilt and patriotism in the modern German psyche)

poem by John Thorkild Ellison
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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