Does anybody recognize this poem? Or if there is any significance behind it? I'm asking because this poem recently turned up in my mail box at work. It was only the poem, with no name attached and it's creeping me out. I teach literature at a university, so it's not uncommon for me to recieve poems in my mailbox. However, this came with no name, and there is no assignment that would call for something like this. How to Create an Enemy by Sam Keen Start with an empty canvas Sketch in broad outline the forms of men, women, and children. Dip into the unconsciousness well of your own disowned darkness with a wide brush and strain the strangers with the sinister hue of the shadow. Trace onto the face of the enemy the greed, hatred, carelessness you dare not claim as your own. Obscure the sweet individuality of each face. Erase all hints of the myriad loves, hopes, fears that play through the kaleidoscope of every infinite heart. Twist the smile until it forms the downward arc of cruelty. Strip flesh from bone until only the abstract skeleton of death remains. Exaggerate each feature until man is metamorphasized into beast, vermin, insect. Fill in the background with malignant figures from ancient nightmares – devils, demons, myrmidons of evil. When your icon of the enemy is complete you will be able to kill without guilt, slaughter without shame. The thing you destroy will have become merely an enemy of God, an impediment to the sacred dialectic of history.
That's not a poem....it doesn't rhyme. Glad you squared that away though, it would have made me uneasy if I received something like that anonymously as well.
Send another poem to everyone you know: Roses are red, violets are blue, I got your little poem smartass and f you too.