If you lay for Iago at the stage door with a brick
You have missed the moral of the play.
He will have a midnight supper with Othello and his wife.
They will chirp together and be gay.
But the things Iago stands for must go down into the dust:
Lying and suspicion and conspiracy and lust.
And I cannot hate the Kaiser (I hope you understand.)
Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand.
A Colloquial Reply: To Any Newsboy
Vachel Lindsay
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Poem topics: hate, hope, lust, together, wife, play, door, understand, dust, stage, chase, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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