At this very moment
as anti-Marxists
and anti-anarchists
and anti-revolutionary liberals
debate what’s the matter with the places
they’ve never been to,
a very tall man
a very gaunt man
a very weary man
with greasy hair
and dirty hands
and a pressed cotton shirt
that is as clean
as it could be
has borrowed the ashtray
from my table,
returned it empty
and is proceeding to smoke
the butts.
He has straightened all the chairs,
bussed all the tables,
hoping to find
a scrap of dignity.
Now he’s settled down to eat
a bowl of chowder
he believes the manager
has given him in payment.
He runs the clean white napkin
over his neck and face,
twice quickly in his ears
and over the seat of his chair.
A human being
approaching some stale clam chowder
with the reverence
of one kneeling at an altar;
A human being
sipping some lousy clam chowder
with the tenderness of a lover
in the belly of
the world’s most envied abundance.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost
- Over The Roofs by Sara Teasdale
- Вероника Тушнова – Мать
- Captivity poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Григорьев – Картинка
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам вчера прислали из рук вон плохую весть
- The Rose and the Cross poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 15 из 15
- The Life Theoretic poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Crossroads by Roger Hayes
- Sonnet LVIII by William Shakespeare
- To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty : On His Birthday.
- The Garden by Abraham Cowley
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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