Felicitations: Bernice Berates a Bigot

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Bernice Berates a Bigot

You say that I'm a man.

You seem to think you can

Determine who I am.

Here's my reaction: Scram!

Bernice Berates a Bigot is part of the poem series Felicitations by Felicia Nimue Ackerman. Ackerman is a professor of philosophy at Brown University and has had over 200 poems published in a wide range of places. We are lucky to get to have a few of them published right here at Options Magazine.