You strop my anger, especially
when I find you in restaurant or bar
and pay for the same liquid, coming and going.
In bus depots and airports and turnpike plazas
some woman is dragging in with three kids hung off her
shrieking their simple urgency like gulls.
She’s supposed to pay for each of them
and the privilege of not dirtying the corporate floor.
Sometimes a woman in a uniform’s on duty
black or whatever the prevailing bottom is
getting thirty cents an hour to make sure
no woman sneaks her full bladder under a door.
Most blatantly you shout that waste of resources
for the greatest good of the smallest number
where twenty pay toilets line up glinty clean
and at the end of the row one free toilet
oozes from under its crooked door,
while a row of weary women carrying packages and babies
wait and wait and wait to do
what only the dead find unnecessary.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Катя Пиксаева – Давай поговорим о доброте
- Repentance by Shailendra Chauhan
- Family Caregivers Have Promises to Keep
- A Seed by William Allingham
- An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour by Robert Herrick
- Spring Day poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Captain Hook by Shel Silverstein
- A General Summary by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn:
- The Ghosts of the Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay
- A Net to Snare the Moonlight by Vachel Lindsay
- Beauty
- Владимир Орлов – Ночной листок
- “Beyond the pasture’s withered bents ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Ольга Седакова – Selva selvaggia
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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).