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
- When The Green Lies Over The Earth poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- Геннадий Айги – ДЕВОЧКА В ДЕТСТВЕ
- Sonnet CLIII by William Shakespeare
- Verdad Innegable by Victoria Luisa Mora Paoli
- Нина Воронель – Маме
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше иностранцы шли в Россию как разбойники и воры… (Роста №105)
- Владимир Орлов – Белые стихи о черном пуделе
- Light poem – John Milton poems
- Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats. by Walt Whitman
- Hunger and Thirst by Muhammad Dawood Jan
- Низами Гянджеви – Лишь с луной сравниться
- The Houses by Rudyard Kipling
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
- little Sara’s sleep by Raj Arumugam
- Lately our poets by Walter Savage Landor
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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).
