"One of the worst traps
is finding yourself
despising someone
really good.
There they are
wearing a miniskirt
talking dirty
but washing
the filthy
feeding the hungry
defending the poor
befriending the dead.
& all you can
say in your
defense
is
their bleached hair
& studded
nostril
hardly goes
with so much
leg."
-Alice Walker (from Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth)
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You should print that out and leave it as a gift for the poetry house. Take a poem, leave a poem.
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