Intended to catch the 'does he take sugar' attitude to people with physical disability, the poem relies on the word 'owns' being recognized in the spirit I intended; I'm not that I've achieved it.
Attitude.
Who owns the child
with the withered arm-wings,
who carries the mutation
that weighs a ton;
who, when the air is full
of flight, hops
and hops and hops.
See how the children
littering the yard
launch like torn pages
into careless flight.
Like gulls they hog the
sunlight
while a sea worries far below.
This is the currency.
But who owns that child,
the child with the
withered arm-wings.
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