Manifesto

For weeks police have sought for the motive behind this senseless act of violence.  Today they found a manifesto, written just hours before the shooting:

 

Manifesto

I am a proton

I am headed for trouble

In a thousand years I will swim in an ocean that bears my name

 

and the presence of your thoughts

the procession of your prayers

will not know me

for so sayeth the Lord:

as ye murder them, so shall ye remember them

 

so shall I then lie still.

(it is finished)

Reviews

[Ken e Bujold]

This is a remarkable poem. every line packed with a punch to undress the mind's blithe. Definitely one to be remembered. Great work M

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[Montag]

Thank you, sir. It's a topic of recurrent relevance down here in the land of the too-free.

Just came across this, moments ago, after I plucked a book of Auden's poems from a free library. Let me know what you think:
https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome