I.
Our plaza is sanctuary
for sunning, eating, and smoking
waiting to go up to Social Security
words to each other tripping on our tongues
looking curiously at pigeons.
A homeless man plans a life
around sneakers, clothes
and a bedroll
He buys a bunch of stringbeans for a quarter
and lives on it till next Wednesday.
II.
People are circling into families
Onions and greens from the Farmers Market
The good workers of the soil display their wares
The housewives and elderly men
stand in line to get their ingredients weighed
Soup would be hotfood for their families.
City fathers would lift off our market
from the bricks of the plaza
for the sake of ego
that puts down plaques here
Where will the vegetable sellers find refuge?
Where can we buy vegetables still smelling of earth?
End of the poem
15 random poems
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’t:
- Polly’s Tree by Sylvia Plath
- Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Aquarium epoch by Vladimir Marku
- Hoppleroopleoopledook by Pornika Ganguly
- That The Night Come by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Farewell:
- Нина Воронель – Игарка
- A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: Craigieburn Wood:
- The Jester by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не писать стихов мне и романов
- Whitsun by Sylvia Plath
- A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies by William Ernest Henley
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
