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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Sticks & Stones & Swastikas

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Sticks & Stones & Swastikas

 “They’re just words,”
he asserts,
when I chide him
for his heated propaganda
(then he reminds me
of a childish chant
about feckless talk and
broken bones)

 “It’s not against the law”, (he contends)
“to hate ______,” (fill in the blank)
(choose as many as apply)

“I’m a simple man,” he argues,
“but, even I can exercise
my First Amendment rights.”

(And while that much,
at least, is true)
still, I just don’t see
why it requires
a college degree
to presage
where angry words
might lead

PSC / 2018-Nov

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