The Removal Men Poem by Tom Higgins

The thought police, for the thinkers came,
they took them all in one night.
It was time for them to extinguish enlightenment's flame,
to consolidate and make greater the might,
of the powerful clique, the scheming few,
who'd combined to usurp all power,
and now the time of retribution came, to,
all who disagreed, or whose thoughts did tower,
above those of the ruling menace,
who feared these ideas would spread,
so they removed them from the human race,
attempting to stop their questions, dead!