Her arms semaphore fat triangles,
Pudgy HANDS bunched on layered hips
Where bones idle under years of fatback
And lima beans.
Her jowls shiver in accusation
Of crimes cliched by Repetition.
Her children, strangers
To childhood’s TOYS, play
Best the games of darkened doorways,
Rooftop tag, and know the slick feel of
Other people’s property.
Too fat to whore,
Too mad to work,
Searches her dreams for the
Lucky sign and walks bare-handed
Into a den of bereaucrats for her portion.
‘They don’t give me welfare.
I take it.’
End of the poem
15 random poems
- On Carpaccio’s Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- When I Go Alone At Night by Rabindranath Tagore
- Goblin Revel by Siegfried Sassoon
- Вера Павлова – Трогающему грудь
- Her Vision In The Wood by William Butler Yeats
- Synesthesia by Orla McGreevy
- The Boy by William Allingham
- To The Small Celandine by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Ржевский – Портрет
- Олег Бундур – Чайковский
- Ольга Седакова – Три богини
- Юрий Галансков – Вступление к поэме “Апельсиновая шкура”
- Владимир Маяковский – Пилсудский
- Me’th Below The Tree by William Barnes
- Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division by Robert Burns
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).
