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
- Владимир Корнилов – Арена
- Houses Of Dreams by Sara Teasdale
- Лермонтов – Бородино: Стихотворение “Скажи-ка, дядя, ведь не даром”, читать текст стиха полностью онлайн на Poetry Monster
- 600 Kilos of Muscle and Bone by Rose Mary Boehm
- Morning Poem #43 by Wanda Phipps
- The Fallen House
- Psalm 9 by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Высоцкий – Студенческая песня
- The Best Friend by William Henry Davies
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Юлия Жадовская – Возврат весны
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
- Новелла Матвеева – Отражённым светом
- The Guide Post by William Barnes
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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).
