LET FREEDOM REIGN

By Bedros Afeyan

(To M.L.K. Jr.)

The luxury of indifference Through the gospel of ignorance Made virtuous

Who can love? And what is hate? In this blissful miasmal state?

To witness all and merely shrug Choose to change channels In search of hearty laugh tracks

Nations glued to little else Beat their drums and their chests We are free! Come the cries

This is freedom. Free at last.

College Park, MD (1987)