selected poems of Arlen Riley Wilson

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,

	
	

							

	
	
	



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