"Encounter in the Cage Country"  
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"I was walking down

The cellblock in green glasses and came
At last to the place where someone was hiding
His spots in his black hide.

Unchangeably they were there,
Driven in as by eyes
Like mine, his darkness ablaze

In the stinking sun of the beast house."

AUTHOR            James Dickey
KEYWORDS      zoo
GENRE               20th Century Poetry


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