Prejudice



Oh, the injustice of prejudice
Fear of what is not known to
A biased person who, in turn, sees
This thing of which they know nothing about
As evil.

Oh, the injustice of biased judgement
Anything different obviously
Cannot be good because 'tis not like
You and I because we're
Biased.

And, of course, the entire world
Is biased because everyone
Is different from everyone else, so therefore
We must all hate each other, because
None of us are alike, which, in turn,

Makes us all evil.
Naturally.
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Submitted on October 22, 2009

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXA XBXXX XXXXX AB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 478
Words 88
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 2

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