Maps and Gaps--A New Poem by Stan Brunn

Maps and Gaps

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Our world is full of gaps,

Age, income, class and equality,

Gender, skills, power and ethnicity.

Rural, urban, race and faith,

Intellect, discrimination, states of birth.

Our maps are also full of gaps,

Age, income, class and equality,

Gender, skills, power and ethnicity.

Rural, urban, race and faith,

Intellect, discrimination, states of birth.

Our minds are full of gaps,

Age, income, class and equality.

Gender, skills, power and ethnicity.

Rural, urban, race and faith,

Intellect, discrimination, race and faith.

Can we narrow our world of gaps?

Can we narrow our maps of gaps?

Can we narrow our minds of gaps?

Lest they become perpetual  traps.

                                       

                                Stan Brunn, April 4, 2015