All he really wanted
was the sexual
abandon of the goyim.
Hence his embrace of morphine
and the Catholic Church.
In spite of conversion
his esteemed goyim
Jew-baited his worked-over poetry.
Nonetheless he loves and hates
his Deutschland über alles.
He thinks: maybe I should
emigrate to Amerika
"that Freedom Stable where
all the boors live equally."
It's 1825: Heine knows what
they do there to the Schwarze.
Chooses Paris instead
where he writes lyrical
poems about Germany
and a Political analysis
of the Can-Can.
Heine said:
"People who burn books
will also burn people."