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
- Night-Piece by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Death Of Huss poem – Alfred Austin
- Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
- The Dunciad: Book II. poem – Alexander Pope
- Did Shakespeare write his own plays and poems?
- Олег Чупров – В лесу просторно, тихо, ясно
- Нина Воронель – Игарка
- His Insufficiency Of Praise by Luis Vaz de Camoes
- What Best I See In Thee. by Walt Whitman
- As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
- How cruel are the parents by Robert Burns
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- Autumn by P. K. Page
- The Morning Half-Life Blues by Marge Piercy
- Faun by Sylvia Plath
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
