[Erik Olson]

What was inspired by a scopeless tract
is now become as vague and weakly backed;
like meats through rank digestion, so each claim
passed through the thread no longer is the same.
The lack of rigor, proof, courts points gone wild
loose as constructs like these allowed and piled:

These days there is a lot of angry noise about identity and “identity politics.” From some perspectives, it’s a misguided tide of righteousness that has destroyed our ability to see each other as individuals, only as adherents of groups with greater or lesser moral capital. From others, it’s a fundamental cry for justice in a world that has clubbed us with smug assumptions.

Some groups count moral chips by loud bullhorn;
some think our ties beyond our group have torn—
both camps are ill-outlined, too black and white,
nor would they ban a fictive thing you write.