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
- Михаил Лермонтов – Земля и небо
- Inscription at Friars’ Carse Hermitage by Robert Burns
- Spain 1873–’74. by Walt Whitman
- Lines Composed on the Body Politic by Rita Dove
- Николай Языков – Вечер (Прохладен воздух был)
- Ольга Берггольц – Слышала, приедешь к нам не скоро ты
- Николай Гумилев – Когда спокойно так и равнодушно мы
- Иван Бунин – Безнадежность
- Юрий Левитанский – Человек, строящий воздушные замки
- A Song of Enchantment by Walter de la Mare
- Ask Me No More poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Тихонов – Когда людям советским
- Как Муромец Илья когда-то
- Sonnet I: Loving In Truth by Sir Philip Sidney
- When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
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).
