The Ultimate Phobia

'Islamophobia' and 'Homophobia'
are two terms among many
whose very trendiness
I struggle to comprehend.

The ultimate phobia comes
from cursing someone as 'stupid',
and making a bad deed or two
the sum of of the whole person.

There we act out our fear
of rational argument by ignoring
the vital differences between people
which multiply the sum of life.

To curse and do down the intelligence
of another is to reduce your own
to brute insensitivity, and to increase
the other persons sense of burden
to make include your contempt.

Such contempt is a live death wish.