we have learned how to
keep ticks out of houses
also flies, rats, possums, bears
we believe ourselves to be kind
to beings not like ourselves
e.g., labradoodles & siamese
we hardly think of refugees
housed in wriggly-tin shacks
with ants, scorpions, centipedes, & roaches
working hand-to-mouth, knowing weather
will soon destroy all they have
they are not we & never will be
& though we might wish they lived
like us, they won’t
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