Note: any one else remember singing that song?
TEN
frame the other
name the enemy
as an object
as a category
an abstraction
generalization
this is how
to keep her, lock him
up, sweep them
under a rug,
or throw it away
I was taught
to count to ten
and back to one
with my innocent
child’s voice
singing, squeezing,
diminishing, killing
ten little Indian boys.