KILL


I'll kill you because you're black
(though you were first in this world)
I'll kill you because you're white
(and you've killed me so often)
I'll kill you because your type is
my current enemy
And I'll kill you because I just
don't happen to like you this instant.
Most of all, I'll kill you because I can,
because my impulse is more important
than any old laws in stone
or any contempt by fellow man.
I'll kill you because no one has convinced
why I shouldn't think of such a thing
and I, least of all, have figured it out.
Killing is my license
though I don't even know
that such could never be granted