Pronoun Diplomacy
If “Know thine enemy” is
Still a useful admonition,
First, master personal pronouns.
The world divides conveniently into
First person and third person plurals;
That is, we versus they,
Or as case dictates,
Us against them.
The crux and the curse reflect
1st person’s inclusion of the speaker.
That’s why the enemy
We talk about is always
Someone else.
No wonder when we
Don’t really know, we say,
“They killed him.”
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