As/Is







5.07.2004




poem #162 (frederick douglass)

On The Meaning of Dissent


America was easy.

Everybody can flippantly discant on the tyrrany
it is fashionable.

Men
rebel against the wrong.

With the oppressed lies
the merit
unfashionable.

The cause of liberty
stabbed
by men who glory in the deeds
of your fathers.