After I read
I prop myself up on a book
and try to write.
Yesterday as I left the BART station
I saw a man acting as if (as we say)
at war with himself, commandeering
without wit, the opposite staircase
by the nightmare of his appearance.
He rocked his knees up in the air
while his ass bounced on the step.
Then his ass and knees were exchanged,
he was reaching for a brown p aper bag
drenched in pinkish red paint.
His hands were layered with it, and
the lower half of his face (except
for a Goyesque smile) gums almost
failing to meet teeth, mouth expanded
like Kronos devouring his children.
The lids of his eyes were full of
patient hope, as they came together
in a baby’s breath. but the latex
drops that covered his arms were as if
he had eaten his hands and the blood
exploded. I couldn’t picture his lungs.
The bag kept getting away from him.
On the step by his side stood a large
spray can diseased with the substance.
I asked myself what should I do with him.
End of the poem
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- Alabaster by Sarojini Naidu
- To A Wife, On Mother’s Day by Ronald G. Auguste
- The Winds Out of the West Land Blow poem – A. E. Housman
- In Due Observance Of An Ancient Rite by William Wordsworth
- Song of the Universal. by Walt Whitman
- Street Cries by Sarojini Naidu
- The Crystal Gazer by Sara Teasdale
- The Lover’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Wait. Элла Уилкокс.
- Владимир Маяковский – Помогите цинготным детям (Главполитпросвет №274)
- As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Берггольц – Ласточки над обрывом
- About Face poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Purity by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet 09 poem – John Milton poems
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