When I was a student, <br />In Lucretius I read <br />Of the pleasure that people found <br />In watching from shore <br />The great troubles of others <br />On stormy and turbulent seas. <br />It seemed to me then <br />(for I knew it a truth; <br />the same was inside of me) <br />And it seems to me now— <br />Mankind can be very unkind.<br /><br />Pete Crowther<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/schadenfreude-2/
