A Final Greeting: A Word Of Warning To A Belarusian Poet And Propagandist Using An Assumed Name … Evil Is As Evil Does … Poem by Dennis Ryan

Monday morning, Labor Day, September 2,2024, begun at 5: 25 a.m. and finished and published at 5: 39 a.m.

"Evil is as evil does."
—A worldwide recognized saying

I wish you and Lukashenko and Putin
a wonderful time together—rotten apples
only make good apples next to them rotten
as well. Evil is as evil does. You possess stark
boldness: you follow me, yet criticize me for telling
the truth when you come to me here using a fake
name, hiding your true identity? Your ancestors
must be rolling over in their graves in shame unless
… unless they were just like you are, just like you,
just like you, just like you—as shameless as you.