The Pharisees and Sadducees
Were like Jujubes to Titus,
But pacifying canapés
Gave his Latin limbs phlebitis.
Back-to-the-future if you please,
It’s their Lodges that unite us.
Templar Knights-cum-knickered Frenchmen,
Self-pogromed for revolution,
Served the sansculottes as henchmen:
De Molay got restitution.
At the storming of the Bastille
The gnostic Franks who made the scene
Vended knishes corporeal
To patrons of the guillotine.
Back-to-the-Pale and the news of the day:
Lenin and Trotsky are storming Broadway!
