When I see old black and white movies on my TV,
I wonder.
What if my TV had a world within it,
Of Zebra People.

Zebra People, Zebra Pizza, Zebra Pie.
Zebra Pants and Zebra Paths.
Zebra Alphabets – Z to A.
Zebra Words and Zebra Thoughts.

When I see old black and white movies on my TV,
I wonder.
What of the Zebra People in their Zebra World?
Do they ever think of worlds beyond them, like I do?

What would they say if we ever met?
If they saw
the red of my lips,
the pink of my nails,
the blue of the sky, and the green of the trees.
And most of all,
The rainbow of thoughts that flow through my mind,
allowing me to imagine, in the first place,
this world of Zebra People.

When I see old black and white movies on my TV,
I wonder.
What do the Zebra People think of me?
Or more broadly, what do the Zebra People think?
Bound by the rules of their Zebra World,
if they saw me,
Would they, truly, see me?