Elevoine Santi
I join the funeral
Of individual
And stateless citizens
cut down by violence.
When men turn wolves, then I
Must learn how to deny
The pack's consensus and
The leader's barked command.
I will not serve. Today,
I tell you to obey
Is to give up your hands
As cats'-paws to demands
From that authority
Whose clockwork soldiery
Of Lowing citizens
March against dissidence.
Roy McFadden, 1947
© Courtesy McFadden Estate