Nov. 2, 2006 Listen (RealAudio) | How to listen Poem: "Anger" by
C.K. Williams, from Love About Love. © Ausable Press. Reprinted
with permission. I killed the bee for no reason except that it
was there and you were which made what I would do much worse but
I was angry with you anyway and so I put my foot on it, leaned
on it, tested how much I'd need to make that resilient,
resisting cartridge give way and crack! abruptly, shockingly it
did give way and you turned sharply and sharply now I felt
myself balanced in your eyeswhy should I feel myself so balanced
always in your eyes; isn't just this half the reason for my
rage, these tendencies of yours, susceptibilities of mine? and
"Why?" your eyes said, "Why?" and even as mine sent back my
answer, "None of your affair," I knew that I was being once
again, twice now, weighed, and this time anyway found wanting.
Literary and Historical Notes: It was on this day in 1948 that
Harry S. Truman (books by this author) accomplished one of the
greatest upsets in an Americ