NIGGER
It is all the vain hate in the world
All of the beatings
All of the rapes
And all of the murders
It is all of the wars
And all of the bombs dropped
All of the children with half-burnt faces
And deformed baby brothers and sisters
With a life of fearful, curious eyes to expect
It is all of the mindless violence of the world
It is NOT just a word
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structure and the writing of it. Second, my response to the
poem is obviously to agree with the concluding line. Not
just a word but the ignorance behind the word. Or the way
we're taught to hate -- carefully taught, as the song goes
in South Pacific. -gene.