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Inhuman Fiend

8/24/2017

 

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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