Sprintedon Hollow

December 23


Soon,
like Jesus of Nazareth,
I
may
be killed
because I am different
and am not afraid
to say so.

   [ 2007-05-16:
   Delete, delete: too paranoid; too confessional.
   Okay.  Proceed.  Examples follow. ]

So you: Black, Red, Brown, Yellow, White.

So you: Atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, Moslem, Jew, Christian.

So you: woman, man.

So you.

We are each
of minorities
who must assuage and counter and bear with
the tyrannies of majorities
and each other;
who, though often lost
in the forests of our whims and demands,
must contemplate       the trilliums of hope.





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