BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL

They are still here,

Nazis and other hate mongers

constrictors of freedom

raw naked under uniforms

official and unofficial

camouflaged danger lies sleeping

with one eye open waiting

for a signal that someone

of disapproved color or

misunderstood inclination

has wandered into the wrong place

unaware of eschatological 

impulses of power

THOSE WHO TRESPASS

will try to convince you

the determined campaign to destroy

innocence and wisdom 

is over

it isn’t 

and won’t be

until the well taught lessons

of suspicion and fear 

have been unlearned