The Obvious

I take my bike keys to Hitler's face again

Scratching the sticker off yet another trash can

 

This is a game we play, they put up propaganda

And I follow, scrape it off, take it down, erase it

 

"The Resistance", they call themselves now

As if defending themselves against an enemy

 

I take the sticker off and carry on to work

Where the children greet me with glee

 

Blue eyes, black eyes, green and brown

With those same looks in them

 

They play their games in several languages

Playing house in spanish and doctor in finnish

 

And come to the rowan tree with equal curiosity

When I bend a branch down for them to try the berries

 

Their joy has not been robbed by little sticker Hitlers

Spread by people who are not here to see

 

How they are all the same

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