Something Else Haiku

I don’t want to be
The person who creates more
Rancor in the world.

I don’t want to be
The person who is always
Right and needs to win.

I don’t want to be
A force for inequity—
A wellspring of hate.

I don’t want to be
The loudest, the least humble.

I’ll choose something else.

What I’m Reading:

“Dear poet, when will you stop performing an autopsy / with poems on all the broken things you know, / especially including yourself?”

— Abdulkareem Abdulkareem / “Self-portrait with phonemic analysis”