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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

The Judgment of Cambyses

'The Judgment of Cambyses' by Peter Porter

by Peter Porter •
October 2005, no. 275

This must be a page from The Manual
For the Instructing of Humanity,
Showing the improvement of the Social Order
By the avoidance of personal identification
With Suffering, a turning-away to private Sanity.

 


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