We are a mystery to ourselves and to others.
In this world there is ugly and there is beauty.
We celebrate one and express revulsion
for the other. Physical characteristics that
illuminate our presence are not chosen but
inherited. Are attitudes of chronic delusional
hatred deeply ingrained in a psyche anchored
where the wearer of those expressions distancing
themselves from broader humanity use their
free agency to disperse their black, violent humors
victims of their own existential psychosis eager
to proliferate their miserable rage against those
they choose as victims -- or is society at large
complicit through the very nature of humanity
shunning harmony among harmless diversities
preferring to withdraw within narrow circles of
shared culture looking outward through the
lens of dysfunction seeing threats to their own
comfort in ventilating spleen against competitors
claiming entitlement through human rights?
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