These rockspiders are scum
said one of my brothers
of a certain group of
people.
He was copying something he had heard at school.
My dad leapt up. Never let me hear you say
anything like that again.
No person is scum.
We know nothing when we're born. We have to learn everything.
We deserve respect for
our trials
and for the struggles we have.
My father spoke passionately and with a tear in his eye.
Nobody is a rockspider,
and nobody is scum.
John Garth Raubenheimer
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/things-my-father-said/
