April is National Poetry Month! Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Siege"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Siege."


This I do, being man:
Gather baubles about me,
Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time
Death beating the door in.

White jade and an orange pitcher.
Hindu idol, Chinese God,--
Maybe next year, when I'm richer--
Carved beads and a lotus pod...

And all this time
Death beating the door in.

amazon: no, amazon, the only glitch here is in your ethics and your judgment

Oh, and by the way--fuck you, Amazon; you'll never get another cent from me.

First person who smarmily tries to defend this to me on the grounds that !Only a priori restraint on speech from the government is censorship! Anything else is totally okay! is invited to make an appointment with me to receive punch in the face.