1971 Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri


I Want to Make This Perfectly Clear
A major
Quirk in this society
Is that everyone is
So afraid to make themselves clear,
They don't want to ask
Questions because
The answers
They fear.
People are
The apostles of silence.
They don't rock
The boat.
But they
Certainly tear themselves
Apart wondering
Who likes or dislikest them
Or what was
In that note
That someone wrote.
And it is increasingly difficult also
To get 
The right answer.
People shun you
And your questions
And they sometimes act
Like you're a Panzer.
1971


copyright 2001-2007 by Michael F. Nyiri
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