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Caste

When I was young I read Rudyard Kipling.
I wondered about a small, confusing word.
Mowgli, disinherited by humanity,
    Was a man without caste.
In my innocent mind I decided it was good.

Years later I learned the definition
    Never change, never leave.
My capitalist knowledge was inadequate,
    bereft of examples.
What was it like?
A professor said to me,
    "The cards were stacked against those on the bottom."
At least they belonged.
    A man without caste. How lonely he must have been.


Lindley Williamson, 3/99

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