Find and share the perfect poems.
all of us all but us only
(but not us) the mammals or only
us: animal in us or only
the male of us: brute
no animals in the Bible
only beasts as of the field
not us: it says breathed
into in our image of the dust
anima breath to anima
soul but all animals
breathe the same one
long song the same air
Copyright © 2015 by Martha Collins. Used with permission of the author.
The person you are trying
is not accepting. Is not
at this time. Please
again. The person
you are trying is not
in service. Please check
that you have. This
is your call. Your
person is not accepting.
If you were Chinese, you had (mostly) been excluded since 1882.
If you were Japanese, things were complex after 1907–8.
If you were anything else, you were not excluded as such in 1916
although there were many who thought you should be
if you were the eastern or southern European
that you increasingly were: Russian / Polish
Jewish Italian Polish Slavic Greek . . .
—and you could have been excluded as a convict
lunatic beggar pauper polygamist anarchist
stock strain family line
breed blood skin shape
of the head of the pack
animal human judge
better fitter swiftly
to find foot horse car run
for your life around
town the block the camp