The Pelham Leper

 Stop.

Wait.

Don’t touch him.

He’s contagious.

He’s poisonous.

Well.

Actually.

He’s related.

So by association,

he is also a leper.


Such stupidity.

A woke mind

and a lack of serendipity.


If one fruit is rotten

does that mean

the whole tree shall burn?

Maybe in ancient times:

Victorian,

when a single sneeze could actually

destroy a village,

but in modern times,

where the whole tree is poisonous from birth,

fire would just temper its “politically correct” skin.


Maybe humans should go through selective breeding.

Either that,

or a collective mental beating.


Point and laugh

at the leper.

His only crime:

catching a “cold.”

Tell the world

how uncomfortable you feel

in its mere presence.

Make it isolate.

Make it feel unwelcome.

Make it contemplate life.


I hope you’re happy.

Not all lepers

will sit back

and take the disrespect:

the verbal assault.

Some will spread,

their plague,

like a spore in the wind.

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