This distinction between filth and purity was questioned by Joe Weil in “Ode to Elizabeth”, where Weil overlaps filth and purity in the city of Elizabeth; also by Nicolás Guillén in “What color?”, where Guillén denies color from the definition of purity; and also in “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos William, where Williams provides a sense of purity in a world full of filth. These combined poems show how the distinction between dirt and purity is not as simple as black and black