The feast of colour should be an etching of nature's joy

not of horror rendered forever into minds. 

 

The nazis were thorough

versatile in their methods

for such is the pornography of cruelty

satisfaction in putting to death the innocents

pleasure at a job well done. 

 

Arbitrary hanging was one such habit

the ending of precious lives

by choking on a rope in full view of prisoners

forced to watch

a kind of skewed privilege provided

by the superior race,

with links to medieval ritual along with garrotting

and other means to an end 

 

less mechanized than mass gassing

the roasting of bodies in ovens,

the economy of gravity in the free fall

of prisoners shot from behind. 

 

Mercifully these things we now watch in black and white

not as in real life, while enjoying other gratuitious delights

as provided by Hollywood in glorious colour

now taken for granted.