People

For those I beheld with toll,
	Half of them made a river,
Half a sea, half the honor to worship
	And the other half a wish
To drown them.

	People changed life, the old teacher observed.
So the lizard, riding back with the bellowing
	Of a riddle, spare you a nickel,
Laughing on the faces,
	For, instant, you balance to death.

Go open with unclearing skin,
	 Hate them not, because no hate
Will be enough for such thing;
	Do the numbers, droning underneath
Who said that: "I'm different

	From the blundered group,
That you or whoever was moldering scribbles,
	Not plot shall tell,
From good return, some delight
	From the same animals in hell."
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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