Tom Leonard, “Being a Human Being”

First published in PN Review 32 (2005)

Written for the installation of Mordechai Vanunu as rector of
the University of Glasgow, April 2005

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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-human-being/

Being a Human Being by Tom Leonard - Scottish Poetry Library

not to be complicit not to accept everyone else is silent it must be alright not to keep one’s mouth shut to hold onto one’s job not to accept public language as cover and decoy

Scottish Poetry Library