equal valence

Haters equal ISIS

(ain’t no real crisis)

relate

don’t equate

not clearly us

with

enemy

we make a fuss

to make you see

that us is any

you and me

that agree

to treat each other

peacefully

not egregiously

like ISIS

Deviance

I proudly proclaim supreme racism

wholely disposed to hate human’s race

to mean extremes, crowds of insolence,

fight or flight devolved to loud chaos

of enforced fright.

Steeled against each encounter by armor

of antipathy, assumption of malintent,

only able to relent and open clenched mind’s

shining eye of acceptance to that occasional

beauty, rare and deeply layered.