| Xenophobia |
| Five syllables A word Defined in itself Naming fearer As well as feared How can we say Us Without Them? What do we fear: The stranger The unknown? This childhood Nightmare Not outgrown Of tentacles in the night Brain-eaters The alien. Must it always be We, They? Is it so difficult To accept? But no: We fear them Forgetting We are also Them To them. |
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