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[ Politics & Religion ] Following Orders

  
Such a good Boy Scout    
Another patch to earn    
Standing by devout    
watching heaps of Poetry    
burn  

Staring through the grime    
you stood by the window    
good for nothing    
thinking    
   
It's only orders that I follow    
   
Staring through the window    
you stood for nothing    
conscience clean    
as poem after poem died
   
as the Humanities were  
purified


Written by Anarchitect
Published | Edited 16th Jul 2020
Author's Note
Inspired by the book burnings during Hitler's reign
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