The banishing of Plump Jack:
If I am old, and plump,
and with white hairs
do not witness it. Please
ignore my whiteness. Discount
my innocence. I don’t want
your reverence. I know by my color
that I am damned. And if I am hated
because I am white, and fat, then so be it.
If you can love only the pharaohs lean kin
then you can’t see me anymore than I am
predisposed to no longer harbor a glimpse of you.
More is the pity. For what is unity without
tolerance? What is us without we?
©️Mark W. Ó Brien
29Mar2022
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