Generalize Poems - Poems about Generalize

the woman’s opulence did not mean she would be haughty and uptight some wealthy people are not rude, selfish and snotty I decided to give the woman a fair chance She talked down to me as if I was a worm crawling out of an alley That must have been an accident I gave her another chance She made a snide...

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All blondes wear diamond rings and drive Mercedes so old. All brunettes wear green straw hats and plant marigolds. All tall people play golf on Saturdays and are Methodists winkers. All Americans are overweight donut-eating, chocolate milk drinkers. All Africans wear their hair in braids, and despise tattoos of a girl. All Mexicans like hot taco sauce and dance in...

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I accommodate everyone I see, because I grew up in a small town. It is what we do, or so I thought because my mother told us we did. Until I met others who did not know what I was talking about. Why are you so accommodating? He asked me. What makes you this way? He shook his head ‘no’ when...

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Are you a Halloween cat? I queried the preening feline. Don’t generalize all black cats she said with a sniff and a whine. I was shocked because surely she knew about the teeny witches. Who were holding up her ears on broomsticks with snitches. But I thought, I began to say, apologizing for stereotyping. She began to laugh then, saying...

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My best friend is one color, I am another. We are soul sisters, cousins, we love each other. We are treated differently by people who do not know us at all. But judge us on skin color, which is so ignorant, it’s small. She tells me she has to warn young men to be careful and clean. They will be...

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Villanelle: Generalize and prejudice will congeal Generalize and prejudice will congeal No prejudice justifies the call to arms Exceptions crop up only for common weal Know the next man's the best chance for a fair deal The exception always battens down your qualms Generalize and prejudice will congeal Not to generalize makes neither big deal ...

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