allow us to go

October 18, 2017

allow us to go
first for a
change –
first to call
it for what it is,
–isms, -ists, -phobias –
and listen.
because unfailingly,
we are the firsts
to call it
for what it isn’t,
to call each other
out, the go-to tool
for those accustomed
to the short straw
.
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