neighbors say   look at them

looting

look at them

like animals   i might say

look

at your neighbor's meth house   look

at the county sheriff's report

look

in the mirror 

you motherfucking-racist-pig

but

i don't

i said it fifty years ago

it never works

~  

instead   i talk of injustice

of

freedom to protest

of simple human fairness   of

dignity

i make an appeal

to their better nature   

to 

brotherhood   to

christianity   it never works   it never

works   it

never works   they look

at me   then say   or

do not say   motherfucking-jew-pig