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POETRY . . .
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HYSTERIA
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by Bud Leroy
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It's been seventy years ago today
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That a hundred thousand were swept away
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By governmental involvement in moral cause,
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[The wheels of justice ground without pause!]
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Prohibition..! Prohibition..! was the ringing cry.
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Thousands imprisoned, but did they really know why?
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In the battlefields of moral right,
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When the righteously indignant picked up the right,
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A confused and battered people was all that remained
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As once again, hysteria reigned.
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It's been fifty year ago today
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That a massive genocide was underway.
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Branded by race or color of eyes,
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[Stricken forever from beneath the skies!]
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Jew..! Jew..! was the propaganda cry.
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That was all that was needed for millions to die.
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A confused and battered people was all that remained
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As once again, hysteria reigned.
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It's been forty years ago today
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That, depending on your political sway,
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A communist traitor you were called.
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[The morally righteous were so appalled!]
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Politically motivated from the start,
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So many lives ruined and torn apart.
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A minor congressman was all that was needed
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To dig down to hatred and get it seeded.
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A confused and battered people was all that remained
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As once again, hysteria reigned.
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Here we all stand, once again on the brink...
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Put your nose to the wind and you'll pick up the stink.
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The morally righteous are starting to breed.
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[It's not education we want, it's more prisons we need!]
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And we are all but pawns in the grand charade;
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The homework's been done, the ticket's been paid.
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The propagandists are rolling, picking up the fight,
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But most of us really know what's wrong or right.
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Punishment is needed but it has its place.
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Teaching is the key to saving our race,
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So in years to come, we won't have to explain
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To our children, once again, how hysteria reigned.
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Copyright 1995 Bud Leroy, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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