Lawrence Hall, HSG
You are not a Banana
Sticker Not, Lest Ye be Stickered
A banana bears a sticker to say it is
a banana
(The banana, that is, not the paper sticker)
Even though a banana is obviously a
banana
(It has a yellow skin and some
squashy stuff inside)
If we take the banana sticker from
the banana
And stick the ticker to a tomato
The tomato is not then a banana
However much someone claims it so
Sticking sticky stickers to humans is
also wrong
A man is himself; a woman is herself
If we stick a sticky sticker to a
human
As a joke, well, that’s just a bit of
fun
But if as a judgement then we are false
witnesses
Stickers, nothing but stickers,
excuses
Failures of intellect, truth, and caritas
Stickers are two-dimensional; they
have no depth
Stickers are useless even on bananas
And our brothers and sisters are not
bananas
