Roman Ryan

can we talk about the root of all evil?
problematically, we are doing the root
when we do so; separate this from that
and you have yourself a discerned,
a discrimination, as the big book
of slicing things apart says; you
may have seen one years ago,
it has prefix similarities to our
root: dictionaries spell out
how to commit and rationalize
heinous acts of aggression, 
by seeing this
as one thing
and that as quite another