“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.
