This poem is taken from PN Review 167, Volume 32 Number 3, January - February 2006.
Being a Human Beingfor Mordechai Vanunu
not to be complicit
not to accept everyone else is silent it must be all right
not to keep one's mouth shut to hold onto one's job
not to accept public language as cover and decoy
not to put friends and family before the rest of the world
not to say I am wrong when you know the government is wrong
not to be just a bought behaviour pattern
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