The octogram is a poetic form created last year by Fanstorian Sally Yocom. It consists of two octets, both with a syllable count of 8/4/8/4/8/8/8/4. The rhyme scheme is ababccbb ababddbb.
In my freshman year in college in 1969, I was privileged to take a sociology course with Peter I. Rose, who published in 1964 an insightful look at race relations entitled They and We. In 2006 the sixth edition of this important study was published. Professor Rose was one of those teachers who totally inspired me; because of him I majored in sociology. While his book focuses on race relations and how we separate ourselves from other races out of fear, those same fears are what separate classes, religions, countries. My poem is just pondering.

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