Welcome to Gilchrist Haas’ Monadology.
You might take these for boxes or cages.
I think of them as identically shaped icons,
windows into a virtual humanity
similar to, congruent with this one –
the one we daily inhabit, find ourselves in.
The protagonist is more often white than black,
male than female, short than tall, common than
noble. If you want to infer something from this,
infer no more than that the author possesses
the former, not the latter attributes.
Dear readers, please don’t pretend you’re all naysayers.
I know you better than that. Everybody rise!
See? You’re far more agreeable than me!
If you’d asked me to stand, I’d have remained seated.
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