There's sublime irony
in the North American
television public selecting
both Holocaust and
All in the Family as their
hands-down favourites.
The lovable bigot
is our Everyman,
a symbol whose rantings
all deplore, are amused by,
recognize in the other guy.
The holocaust horror
is the fairy-tale in reverse;
fascinating, repellent,
bearing no relation whatever
to Everyman's foibles.
The one elevated to
delightful eccentricity
the other to a muted aberration,
a fallible error
in human behaviour --
all relating to 'them'.
We're just innocent
spectators in this game
of hunters and hunted;
entertained by it all.
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