The Book of Haiku Revelation

The Conscience of Kierkegaard

There is a time when
the conscience of Kierkegaard
is replaceable.

There is a time when
the conscience of Kierkegaard
is irrelevant.

There is a time when
the conscience of Kierkegaard
is impossible.

There is a time when
the conscience of Kierkegaard
is contradiction.

There is a time when
the conscience of Kierkegaard
is autocracy.

This is not that time.
This is the time of extreme
moral paradise,

the court of vast last
resort, when the chrome-plated
levers in the bleak

machine stop in a
wasteland of abridgment, sick
with dissenting stars.

Tags: Berkeley Free Speech Movement, haiku, Kierkegaard, poetry

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