Drawing Hate

To animate the premise and to draw the face of hate,

you must upend the standard menace of a devil –

you must transcend cliché conventions of a mask:

new eyes must open wide, achieve another level

of attention. Draw, draw more: push past Halloween:

convene with breathing avatars of evil’s immobility.

At last you find the eyes – whose mix of pain and pride

breed hate’s utility – and terrible belief in its nobility.

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