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Unread 02-18-2017, 12:45 AM
William A. Baurle William A. Baurle is offline
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Ralph,

If it's ok to post poems other than our own...


They Hanged Him, I said Dismissively

They hanged him, I said dismissively
having no other way to say he died
or that he was a dear friend
or that work wove us most intimately
in common tasks, ambitions, desires.
Now that he is dead: and I dare not think
of the anguish that drove him to where he was
or the pain at their hands he must have faced
or how much he was racked by my distress:
now, it is still easiest to say, they hanged him,
dismissively.

—Dennis Brutus

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Born in Harare, Zimbabwe (then Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia), to South African parents, Brutus was of indigenous Khoi, Dutch, French, English, German and Malaysian ancestry. His parents moved back home to Port Elizabeth when he was aged four, and young Brutus was classified under South Africa’s apartheid racial code as "coloured". - Wikipedia.
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/52479

^ Good formal poetry by the great American poet, Whitman.







No, not that one. A different one.

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