American culture is . . .
Looked at from this perspective, Inada asserts an inclusive community perspective centered on his Japanese American experience. Inada breaks these boundaries of control. Inada takes most of the words of his first poem from the notice, creating lists that leave out significant portions of the notice. Inada removes the specific reference to Japanese so that the exclusive order becomes a poem inclusive of all persons. The first list that Inada creates from the language of the notice gives compass directions that, in the notice, isolate a particular area from which Japanese Americans will be evacuated.