Looney Bin

The flames from

      inquisitions and crusades

      finally faded

Yet the spirit of persecution

never quite dies

And lingers like a

popular singer’s song

fingering your mind,

feeding on the feedback

of the filth of public opinion

Heretics are always in surplus

ready to be sacrificed

as humanity’s scapegoat

Blasphemy now has a new name

fresh and politically correct (hush-hush)

We are now

the terminally mentally ill

(or bat-shit crazy for short)

As science became the new faith

and reason became the new dogma

Bookburnings are now psychotherapy

Inquisitors are now psychiatrists

Their methods to cure

      the deviant have evolved

though just as cruel and crude

      as history itself

Believe or die;

Believe or burn;

Believe or be poisoned in hospitals

(signatures where highlighted please.)