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# Robespierre
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/robespierre/
- Published: 2023-10-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I wake in search of somebody to cancel. A quick search of the news to prompt my fury, discarding paper pad and sharpened pencil, and more an executioner than jury,
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I wake in search of somebody to cancel.  
A quick search of the news to prompt my fury,  
discarding paper pad and sharpened pencil,  
and more an executioner than jury,

assembling what evidence I find,  
I channel pent up rage in all directions --  
can't be the last to comment. Top of mind  
is critical. Apologies, corrections --

the tools of the oppressors -- and the weak,  
\-- that's us in us and them, in case you wonder --  
we must be heard, and louder, when we speak,  
to drown their hatred with our righteous thunder.

Wait. Why is there a story with my name?  
It looks like someone woke. And I'm to blame.