Final Greeting: A Word Of Warning To A Belarussian 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 6: 03 a.m.; a police proxy at Poem Hunter initially blocked the publication of this complete poem at 5: 40 a.m., and is now delaying publication of the finished poem in the 'New Poems" listing, the time 6: 44 a.m. and counting …

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

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