Invective

Invective written by Robert Ervin Howard

First published in Always Comes Evening, 1957

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There burns in me no honeyed drop of love,
Nor soft compassion for my brother man:
I would indeed humanity possessed
A single throat a keen-edged knife could span.

This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.