Ignorance

“Ignorance”

Ignorance—

Common behavior among us

Intellectuals.

We share, too,

Love for those cute, cuddly ones:

Deer me, puppies n’ kittens for you?

Compare us to the animals:

Sniffing passer-byes, marking visits

With what’s public taboo.

Spray displays are not the human

Way we say hello and good-bye.

That’s just not the way we do things;

We don’t say anything.

See anything?

Stopping to take a picture

Together, with other human beings,

At the rare chance we visit lonely

Concrete cages containing our childhood

Friends. Now life-sized and a little scary,

We continue to pay admission into

Adulthood to see the bears but

Only keep pictures of our children’s visits.

We believe then, the lens will see

Me

You

For who we are, and in

Passing

I will shake your hand

Next time offer to take our picture.

Thanks. I hope

He doesn't steal the camera.

It takes a village with a zoo.

Other enlightened ones,

Too, will not ignore our

Reflections next time

They look at the picture you took,

Not to our face, anyway.

How many ignored us

Today and did we return the favor?

A woe on man’s being to leave out the

Color. We’re cute and cuddly, too.