The Poem

The next time it happens

I hope that I am coming from just having written a poem

Because I like poems more than I like fights

And when I'm coming from just having written a poem,

The fellow talking about Muslims or Middle Easterners or Iranians

Doesn't know any better.

But if I'm coming from not having written a poem for a while

It might not matter that he doesn't know any better

And it might be a matter of a fight and all that that entails.

I like poems more than I like fights

And this one here will keep me for a while

But I don't know what will happen the next time it happens

I just hope that I am coming from just having written a poem.