PEN condemns publication of Karadzic poems |

We are no strangers to poet-princes, horrible princes doubling up as abominable poets, but it looks like the West has a long way to go in tolerating hypocrisy.

guardian.co.uk reports that PEN- the organisation that fights for free speech worldwide- has condemned the publication of a book of poetry by Radovan Karadzic.

I don't admire the man or this poem, 

SARAJEVO

I hear the misfortune threads

Turned into a beetle as if an old singer

Is crushed by the silence and turned into a voice.

The town burns like a piece of incense

In the smoke rumbles our consciousness.

Empty suits slide down the town.

Red is the stone that dies, built into a house. The Plague!

Calm. The army of armed poplar tree

Marches up the hill, within itself. 

The aggressor air storms our souls

and once you are human and then you are an air creature.

I know that all of these are the preparations of the scream:

What does the black metal in the garage have for us?

Look how fear turned into a spider

Looking for the answer at his computer.

(Thanks to BBC ),

but surely even bad men are not to be protected from airing their bad poetry?