Long Poems About Alice Fulton

( After Alice Fulton )    
       
I once had reason to fear        
humans in general—        
     
people are people, individual        
as their unpredictable demeanor        
regardless of upbringing          
       
I've experienced them        
in farmhouse pigsties        
to Buckingham Palace—        
often unable to tell a difference        
aside from clothes or conduct.          
       
I once observed various groups        
in a museum:        
       
The elite,...