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
- Ballade of a Special Edition poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Стефан Малларме – Появление
- Sonnet 22 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Одесские куплеты
- The Caged Skylark poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: First Version
- Олег Бундур – Неправильный кот
- Наум Коржавин – Люди пашут каждый раз опять
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- Владимир Корнилов – Суворов
- Balmoral Castle by William Topaz McGonagall
- An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
- Владимир Набоков – Есть в одиночестве свобода
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).
