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First Impressions

This atheistic, intelligent, liberal minded
     nonestablishmentarian 
     christened Matthew
Scott Harris, haint gotta clue,

     how bias, discrimination, 
     prejudice didst brew
within me noggin admitting to myself,
     (that though tolerant 

     towards most other people)
     amidst variegated hue
mankind cutting crew,
I can not wholeheartedly dislodge un argue

ably the stubborn presence 
     of disagreeably unwanted notions,
     an effort quite few
     till to expunge, though not clearly

     delineated against gentile nor Jew
the latter encompassing 
     my genealogical lineage
     (as ye probably knew)

though acute awareness exists
     that objectionable thoughts 
     towards others coalesced and grew,
sans initial aural, sensational, 

     and visual perceptions did ensue
from nearly imperceptible 
     germinal, ephemeral, and casual
     brief interactions, thy amygdala and,

     posterior cingulate cortex
     (PCC) instantaneously drew
     nearly nsync with a single blink
     of thine myopic left or right human eye

     (which average duration 0.1 to 0.4 seconds,
     or 100 to 400 milliseconds)
     forged an unconscious initial mount'n view
clocked in at 100 milliseconds

     or 328.0839895013123 feet per second
pointing asper an expert mason
     hermetically sealing a psychic impression 
     ala mortise and tenon

     amalgamated conglomerate 
     enterprise glommed zoo
wool logical imprimatur difficult, 
     but not impossible loo
sin and/or completely dislodge 
     neurological hullabaloo.

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