Does anyone know this poem? isn't this so great?

Question

Into our town the hangman came,
smelling of gold and blood and flame.
He paced our bricks with a different air,
and built his frame on the courthouse square.

The scaffold stood by the courthouse side,
only as wide as the door was wide
with a frame as tall, or a little more,
than the capping sill of the courthouse door.

And we wondered whenever we had the time,
Who the criminal? What the crime?
The hangman judged with the yellow twist
of knotted hemp in his busy fist.

And innocent though we were with dread,
we passed those eyes of buckshot lead.
Till one cried, "Hangman, who is he,
for whom you raised the gallows-tree?"

Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye
and he gave a riddle instead of reply.
"He who serves me best," said he
"Shall earn the rope on the gallows-tree."

And he stepped down and laid his hand
on a man who came from another land.
And we breathed again, for anothers grief
at the hangmans hand, was our relief.

Yes, i understand that this is not appropriate for this category but it is actually if you think of it because this is called "the handman" by Maurice Odgen and this is about the Holocaust, when the Nazi's systematically killed 6million Jews. this is not to joke about. This means:
A hangman comes into town and kills a person.... If someone acted out, they would get killed. One, said "murderer," and got killed. More people ended up getting killed because no one did anything to stop this madman. After everyone is killed in the town, the narrator is left and the hangman tells him that it is his fault that everyone died, because the gallows.....
were built for him, and that no one did anything to stop, so they just got killed in their way.
Who is the bad guy?
its the kid!!!!
he stood by while he should have died instead of the ohters that he killed.

Answer 1

So, You want to be a Hangman?

Edit : Sorry,

After reading your additional I only knew what you are trying to share.

Very thoughtfull.

Answer 2

Like it. It's the Hangman by Maurice Ogden.

Answer 3

The Handman.

Answer 4

I don't get it. Where did the taxi cab go in the end, and why was there a candlestick and a baseball shoved into that old trunk?

Answer 5

Interesting, but not appropriate for this category. Go to the poetry corner.

Answer 6

so he who serves him best gets hanged? do I misunderstand? that sounds pretty unfair to me.

another's grief was our relief? If this is supposed to be an analogy to Chist dying and all, I do't like that either. untrue, stupid and violent.

is that the point?

Answer 7

That's pretty cool! Where's it from? Who wrote it?

Answer 8

nope never heard of it and it's a little creepy

Answer 9

love it

Answer 10

I don't understand this.