Those Salem Witch trails
Who did not have to go on that trip
All the way across the nation
Staying at campgrounds by night
Station wagon with multiple kids by day
Just to stand in the hot summer days
And listen how a whole village
Went crazy one day
And began pointing fingers
At their own neighbors
The first or second generation
Past those hard days of the original
Plymouth colony due to religious
Persecution in Europe where they were killing
People who read the bible
Now they were claiming
That they themselves had brought
Witches with them across the Atlantic
Imagine that not getting it right
To sit there and assume that they
Were under siege from inside
The Reverends and the Doctors
Who had studied at the Universities
Should have known better
But they were still dealing with the unknown
One would think they would be spooked
By the forests and the Indians
Instead, they believed that
Some of the women and children
We're acting a behaving in an odd fashion.
It could have been the mushroom picker's fault
Or the berries pickers collectors
Or even the fisherman who did not know
About Mercury poisoning
Unless someone got hold
Of one of those other hallucinates
Anyways they held trials over almost nothing
At all but a few odd moments
Maybe they were all under a hypnotist
The problem was that they hung some of them
And squashed others without pain medicine
While others died in prison
Old ladies who might not even
Have known what it was they were being accused
And young rich men whose relatives
Wanted their inheritance
The ways a community is divided
Is almost always in the way it falls apart
All those deaths those first years
Might be considered suspicious
In retrospect
Who save whom
And who made it easy
For some to get sick and die
Here we are without
The field trips
There are so many
Who died those first few weeks
They even opened Central Park
For a morgue
While India burned theirs in the
Public parks or deposited them in the holy river
What were they supposed to do
While the nurses were learning
How to do tik tok dances
Anyone who tried to help
Has been eliminated
Or accused in some fashion
As if there are those
Who did not want anyone to survive
Or at least amass of people
Going out at the same time
While they themselves
We're not at risk
If they knew they would be immune
Well, we won't go there
But what and when
Are the news going
To begin to suspect
That they are victims
Of a hoax on the part
Of a few?
For the benefit of a few
While the masses are going
About their business in innocence
And silence remains the best policy
Amongst those insane enough to
Attempt to prevent some from
Medical treatment or anything else
Just so they can stick their toes in the sand at the beach?
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