Banality of Evil
the skeletal
languished in the camps,
digging upside-down monuments,
symbols of darkness and death,
to plug with their own corpses.
evils such as these,
as cruel as hell could fathom,
were kept locked away
in the stone-cold belly
of a hungry conspiracy bureaucracy,
where torture and murder and prejudice
fed insatiable hate--
oh-so-far away from the daily niceties
of the pleasant neighborhoods,
where the inflictors wore kind faces,
prayed in church, mowed their lawns,
laughed and drank, hugged their children,
scratched the chins of cats,
oh how they celebrated and gave thanks,
how great they were as a people,
how chosen, how perfect, how strong,
such a superior race.
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