Opus IV: Epigram XXI.

               Epigram XXI.

                Germans killed millions and were evil,

                while the city of Dresden was bombarded

                until it was another Carthage, Hiroshima

                and Nagasaki made by an act of love.

5              Empty seats at the Nuremberg Trials.

                In Hegelian terms, History is God.

                ʻGood always conquers evil!,ʼ says a judge,

                and his breath smells like he were dying.

                ʻPower is virtue,ʼ say Spinoza and Nietzsche.

10            I cannot understand why they are vilified.

                They were exposing what the others hided.

                ʻOnly the dead have seen the end of war,ʼ

                wrote the Epicurean Santayana, in Rome. 


               

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Pieces extracted from Opus IV, forthcoming.