If you, so as to vilify,
Declare me or my kind
“Race traitor,” I will put it by,
And tell you I don’t mind.
One “race” has my acknowledgement,
The “human race,” and that
But tentative: let you relent,
I will not wear your hat.
If I should let your words define
Then I should be like you,
Yet my perceptions stand as mine
To which I keep me true.
Because I say, “Let icons fall
As represent untruth,”
Me a “race traitor” you will call
In words meant to unsoothe.
Yet I the mantle will take up
And spew words back at you,
“Inhuman fiend,” words hard to pulp
Insofar they stand true.
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