crave attention and being admired. Then, there is Polanco a weed, someone who is in competition with the other organisms for food and water and is separated from everyone else. “ Let them be as flowers//Always watered, fed, guarded, admired/ but harnessed to a pot of dirt”. When Polanco writes “Let them be as flowers “ he already started the poem saying he isn’t like them, he separated himself from flowers from the beginning. Additionally, he is telling the readers that he is different from his community. “ Always watered, fed, guarded, admired” implies that these flowers are the privileged ones. They do not have to work or do anything, they are spoiled and in deep need of human care because they don’t know how to take care of themselves.