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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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