You Bring Out The...

The exercise: Write a poem titled "You Bring Out The _______ In Me" where the blank should be filled with something no one would ever actually use to describe you. (Or so you hope.)

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You Bring Out The Lynch Mob In Me

You bring out the midnight knock, the knotted noose in me
The sheet with holes, the burning cross, the blown-up black church in me
You bring out things I never knew in me, the jackboots, submachine guns, barbed wire in me
You bring out the knife and the gasoline-filled tire in me
The chokehold, gun to the back of the head, jail-cell "suicide" with mysterious camera malfunction in me

You bring out the fear in me and promise a wall to keep me safe
You bring out the howling hatred in me and promise a war to make me strong
With you I burn mosques, bomb synagogues, desecrate burial grounds
You bring out the spite in me and bloat it on a diet of alternative facts
Be careful, Mr. President: the things you bring out in me cannot be put down so easily
and, unlike dogs, will turn and bite the hands that feed.

Available! High-Voltage Lines, Knocking from Inside