Poem: “A little ink more or less!” by Stephen Crane

War is Kind & Other Lines (1905)

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American Literature – American Poetry – Stephen Crane – Poems by Stephen Crane – War is Kind & Other Lines
< < < To the maiden
Have you ever made a just man? > > >

A little ink more or less!

A little ink more or less!
I surely can’t matter?
Even the sky and the opulent sea,
The plains and the hills, aloof,
Hear the uproar of all these books.
But it is only a little ink more or less.

What?
You define me God with these trinkets?
Can my misery meal on an ordered walking
Of surpliced numskulls?
And a fanfare of lights?
Or even upon the measured pulpitings
Of the familiar false and true?
Is this God?
Where, then, is hell?
Show me some bastard mushroom
Sprung from a pollution of blood.
It is better.

Where is God?

< < < To the maiden
Have you ever made a just man? > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Stephen Crane – Poems by Stephen Crane – War is Kind & Other Lines

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