POLICE

This animal calls itself police.
Whistling plantigrade.
Varieties: the English, Sherlock. (Pipe.)
Carter, the North American. (Piece.)
Typical diet:
confidential fodder,
electrointerrogataperecorders,
communism (international),
grueling nights
of artificial light.
Quite littler are those of the race called  policeman.
Metal buttons, badge. The head
formed into a cap. In general, a blue pelt.
Typical diet: juvenile delinquency,
disturbances, strikes, petty larceny.
Communism (local).
Translated from the Spanish

Structure

17 lines · 3 stanzas

POLICE · O Captain