History

The atmosphere in the courtroom was dingy
Questions, questions
Questions to be asked and questions made of smoke
Hanging like elephants or paper cuts and bookshelves
Or a half-day of work on a Saturday.
Order screamed the judge in English
And this would be a day to line the holocausts up against the wall
To bear witness to a book as it was written
Its author dressed in the densest black
Words words and pen-like movements of the hand
The rest is fate, the rest is wolves and bloody meat