©2007 M. Bennett Hooper

Hate crime has nothing to do with the way you dress

And try to hide your mess.

Hate crime has nothing to do with

The color of your skin or the shape you’re in.

Hate crime is fundamental for those unable to live with themselves

So they become hell bent on destroying the planet

And all humankind.

Hate crime is not crime merely the face of a monster

Bent on self destruction for whom outright suicide

Requires too much courage .and mother nature is blamed

For climate change as hell grows hotter and glaciers melt

As polar bears forget how to swim and you

Contemplate the purchase of cheap goods made by others

As our working class dissipates, disappears, and dies.

Hate crime is the tool of the powerful too greedy to see their own

Reflections in the deaths they create.