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