Thursday, August 30, 2018

№: 411: Endgame?

Will we ever erase
this idea nugatory:
the notion that “race”
is a real category?
Ethnicity, yes,
language, I guess.
Religion, of course,
's a continuing source
of intercommunal strife.
And nationality
trumps rationality
in most every aspect of life.
Culture's another
terrific divider:
marking distinction between
in- and outsider.
Sex orientation's
dividing nations.
(As if we need
yet more perturbations.)
The Bible says,
“Be fruitful and multiply.”
Instead we divide.
I don't know why.

Would that we could
fast forward the sequel
to that happy day
when everyone's equal.
A world full of equal
sisters and brothers.
(And as Orwell foresaw
some more equal than others?)

Not really relevant, but when Barbra met Elliott.. . .
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