notachance's Blog

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Announcement 1969

As a former love freak

I have an announcement to make:

I have learned to hate.

Hatred is a liberating thing,

It releases energies.

For many years I despaired

Of ever experiencing

True hate.

I always tripped

On the fallible,

The forgivable,

The understandable.

But as the film of love

Cleared from my eyes

I saw them clearly etched:

Those to whom I, my children,

My loves and my friends

Are casually expendable --

For principles, or for

Convenience, or as

A regrettable

Contingency.

All we have built

And hoped for and done

Are nothing to them,

To the grey men

With the artificially

Human complexions.

They are not only here

But everywhere,

An exclusive clique.

Moral appeals

Are pitiful squeaks

Of rats in a trap.

Far better

The bared teeth

And the poisoned

Bite.

Small things can be rabid.

Witness a mad rat.

So tremble, grey men.

Not only I have teeth.

The Day of the Mad Rat

Is at hand,

(by Arlen Riley Wilson, sociologist and poet, 7/16/25---5/22/99)

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