Wednesday, November 28, 2018

A Manifesto Against Manifestos (no "hey-hey, ho-ho," please)

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com


A Manifesto Against Manifestos

“You can silence me, but you can never convince me”
-graffiti on a bulkhead in Viet-Nam

I am not woke; I am awake. No one
Commands me how to see and think and write
I am not one of The Masses. I am.
I am not one of The People. I am.

I choose as my teachers Dostoyevsky
And Byron, too, and Shelley, Keats, and Waugh
Ahkmatova, Shakespeare, Chesterton, and Lewis -
Not some embalm’ed face upon a screen

I am not obedient, and no one
Commands me how to see and think and write

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