Is poetry important? Yours is not
If no one wants to censor you or burn
Your manuscripts. If no one wants them hot
Off the presses and no one will spurn
Your verse, then it is unimportant. Death
Comes early to the dangerous who dare
To challenge worlds. Your long life and your breath
Condemn your frivolous words. We don't care.
But if you say the meaningful and break
The colored glasses that we wear, you'll see
Your words for their importance. When a lake
Of blood is spilled for words, then you'll agree
That arts' and humanities' import
Is such that only fools would dare abort.
In the 9th and 10th lines, did you mean 'break the colored glasses that we wear'?
ReplyDeleteThank you. Yes, that was a typo. An interesting one, but a typo to be sure.
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