'You have courage, ' they tell me.
It's not true. I was never courageous.
I simply felt it unbecoming
to stoop to the cowardice of my colleagues.
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he's such a modest man. i met him once at East Central University when he gave a poetry reading. he never threw his talent around one bit. so it seems typical that he would write such a modest poem.
Thank you, Hollie Caskey, for the glimpse of the real man behind the poet. He did indeed live in times when plain honesty was courageous- -dictators loathe honesty