Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
This is not About a Casual Acquaintance Named Mohammed
I really like him, and I would like to ask him
Why some of his co-religionists hate Jews
But we’re not really friends, and so I won’t
Because he might ask me about the Inquisition
Or about my great-grandfather, taken prisoner
At Saylor’s Creek (he was on the wrong side, you see)
A docent at Grand Pre’ asked me about my Acadian ancestors
“Not mine” I said; “mine would have been wearing red coats”
“Well,” she replied wryly, “Someone had to.”
But maybe these things won’t always be so
