Carl The Nazi Poem by Paul Warren

Carl the Nazi found it tricky leaving Germany
But the rat lines had been set with help
From the money stolen from the Jews
In the Fuhrer's Final Solution in Europe

There had been some close calls too
As he made his way to South America
But Simon Wiesenthal had tracked him
Eventually he had lost him and got away

So to Adelaide in South Australia then
Thinking he would be safe from them
At the bottom of the world tucked away
But there was only one thing that was wrong

Jacob was a Polish Jew who was in the camps
Where he had been sent with his whole family
And he was the only one to survive the Holocaust
Losing his wife and two daughters to the Nazis

But fate has a way of sorting things out in the end
Carl thought the best way was to get an ordinary job
So he joined the South Australia Railways as a ganger
In a years time he became more comfortable there

He thought that eventually things would be better
Until one day on the Gawler Line Jacob saw Carl
And Jacob knew Carl the Nazi straight away
As the SS officer who sent his family to the gas chamber

So Jacob planned to take justice into his own hands
He waited until Carl was in the locker room in the morning
When he was alone with him and he raised his pick
Above his head striking Carl in the back of his head dead.

© Paul Warren Poetry