The zoos of Canada and the U S of A <br />treat animals better then jails of America today. <br />Animals have great pictures that are adored <br />animals in pictures in brochures they are stored. <br />Mug shots of inmates are shown in newspapers that can ruin their names— <br />This keeps the sad gossip of Planetary Dream <br />being repeated again. <br />Animals get to go outside most of the time <br />Humans might not even see day even if all sunshine. <br />Now it’s sad to see elephants strapped <br />to shackles at the circus or zoo <br />How does it feel to be a human <br />that feels like an animal too? <br />Sheriffs now imagine what it feels like to <br />walk in inmates shoes. <br />Inmates say “We want to go to prison for it’s better than jail” <br />I say “That is where “The system” does fail.” <br />Inmates respond in so many words <br />if I don’t write them here they will not be heard. <br />“People on the outside don’t care about us— <br />we are beneath them so are welfare is nothing <br />we are like dirt or even dust.”<br /><br />Suzanna Chevalier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/are-zoo-s-treating-their-inmates-better-4/
