Human Profiling
By IE Sommsin
To spot a fascist requires no great skill.
Note the curl of the lip, the smirk, the sneer,
the glint in the eye, the stare and the leer,
the look of contempt that aspires to kill.
Something in their faces, odd, off and wrong,
something missing under the skin and bone,
and in their voices a metallic tone
that makes a tuneless and relentless song.
Then how is it so many seem puzzled?
Why is the obvious that hard to name, when
the cruel children piss on the flame and
the mind of a nation is muzzled?
People have little need for eye or ear,
if they will not see and refuse to hear.
IE Sommsin, a writer and artist from Kentucky, lives in San Francisco and has a fondness for sonnets.
Image credit: DonkeyHotey via a Creative Commons license.