“A Neutral Color Or Yellow?” A Poem On The Problem Of Fence Sitting In The Age Of Trump

A NEUTRAL COLOR

OR YELLOW?

 

If the emperor

Says he has clothes,

And has no clothes,

Is silence suspended

Judgment or cowardice?

_____

2h-berlin-may-10-1933

Per Wikipedia: “On 10 May 1933, in an act of ominous significance, the students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of ‘un-German’ books, thereby presaging an era of uncompromising state censorship.”

About Santi Tafarella

I teach writing and literature at Antelope Valley College in California.
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