silver hair

so,
how im­por­tant is it,
me­dia fear mon­gers of the world,
that Ju­lian As­sange has
“sil­ver hair”—
you seem to in­clude it in ev­ery
de­scrip­tion of what is hap­pen­ing
to him,
what he has done in his life thus
far &
some­how you squeeze it in­to
ev­ery pos­si­ble sto­ry
that has any­thing to do with him—
WE
FUCK­ING
GET
IT.

if the man had been born with a
dreamy
John­ny Depp dark brown,
would he still be de­pict­ed as some
kind of crazy mad­man char­ac­ter
from a block­buster that comes out
in the sum­mer,
bear­ing the need for some hero to come &
wipe the world clean of him?

maybe if he had
pas­sion­ate
David Caru­so red & a pair of Ray Bans
al­ways on,
he’d be seen as a tough cop­pish type who
nev­er takes off his suit jack­et,
no mat­ter how hot it is in Mi­a­mi &
the world would fall in love with him
ev­ery time they see his pic­ture?

we are talk­ing about a man who has
dealt a won­der­ful blow in­to the stom­ach
of the po­lice­man who runs the world,
some­one who’s or­ga­ni­za­tion con­tin­ues to
al­low whistle­blow­ers to ex­pose vi­tal truths
in a world full of lies &
all that you can find wor­thy of de­scrip­tion is
the man’s
sil­ver hair?