Prejudice outwitted a guard
full of self-satisfaction
under a disguised form of fear,
a distorted sense of menace,
a threatening Ghost of Hate,
then an Amnesia is justified
erasing that certainty which
it was there at the outset
and that a Houdiniesque Calendar
has altered into Absolute Doubt
under the sightless wakefulness
of the outwitted guards.

Nov. 2006-