If you cross me, I disappear.
If you lie to me, I disappear.
If I find you to be a racist, I disappear.
If you are a bigot, I disappear.
If I find you to be unkind, I disappear.
If I find you to be despicable, I shall not get within 1,000 miles of you.
You are sick, and I do not want to catch any of your diseases.
Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He is now writing his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.