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I claim a place

on this planet

so do my sons

so do our cats

animals all we are

and intent on survival 

despite inhuman orders

handed-down from above

resist much obey little*

is my mantra

though I don’t 

resist my brain

and I do 

obey my heart

how can this cause hurt?

as well to remember

warfare is ever

our greatest plague

while the world sees fit 

to wash its bloody hands

of it

 

*Walt Whitman