TERROR DOMESTICA

9/11 has cast a pall on me

            Because I am the

Universal Soldier

            The proverbial Sojourner

Embroiled and inscribed in an eternal

            Intra-cultural Warfare—

Tribal in nature

            On Native soil,

Which I can never hope to win.

My enemy is History—

            Or is it Original Sin?

Being colored and female—asexual, bisexual?

            One never knows.

My enemy is elusive—

            Always hides his face behind

Customs—and sometimes—

            Disguises himself as Law

Sometimes, as Philosophy or Religion.

Hard to recognize—but more difficult to disguise.

How do you disguise hate?

            Racism

            Intolerance?

Why, wrap it in the Flag—Or,

            Blame it on God.

So logical!