Walls

 

What if I hate you for selling insurance —

what then? What if your odor offends

me? What if I find your motives impure,

 

your parentage suspect, or you attended

the wrong school, the wrong church? What if you’re blind,

or lame, or stupid? What if you hate men?

 

What if I see you hungry, waiting, lined

up for what you want, whatever has lured you?

What if I just plain don’t like your kind?

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Brattleboro, Vermont

October 2019

 

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