II. A Colloquial Reply: To Any Newsboy

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.

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