African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Waring Cuney, "The Radical" (1927)

Men never know
What they are doing.
They always make a muddle
Of their affairs,
They always tie their affairs
Into a knot
They cannot untie.
Then I come in
Uninvited.
They do not ask me in;
I am the radical,
The bomb thrower,
I untie the knot
That they have made,
And they never thank me.


Published in Caroling Dusk, 1927