[Newspoetry] poem by George Starbuck

[gillespie william k]

  (Note:  This poem was written in memory of Norman Morrison, a Quaker
  activist who set himself on fire outside the offices of Defense
  Secretary Robert McNamara to protest the Vietnam War.)


  Of Late


  Norman Morrison, Quaker, of
  Baltimore, Maryland, burned and
  was burned and said

  all that there is to say in that language.

  Twice what is said in yours.

  It is a strange sect, Mr. McNamara,
  under advice to try

  the whole of a thought in silence, and
  to oneself.


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