I.
Our plaza is sanctuary
for sunning, eating, and smoking
waiting to go up to Social Security
words to each other tripping on our tongues
looking curiously at pigeons.
A homeless man plans a life
around sneakers, clothes
and a bedroll
He buys a bunch of stringbeans for a quarter
and lives on it till next Wednesday.
II.
People are circling into families
Onions and greens from the Farmers Market
The good workers of the soil display their wares
The housewives and elderly men
stand in line to get their ingredients weighed
Soup would be hotfood for their families.
City fathers would lift off our market
from the bricks of the plaza
for the sake of ego
that puts down plaques here
Where will the vegetable sellers find refuge?
Where can we buy vegetables still smelling of earth?
End of the poem
15 random poems
- I’m My Own Grandpa by Shel Silverstein
- Day’s Rain Is Done poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Anecdote Of Canna by Wallace Stevens
- Владимир Маяковский – Негритоска Петрова
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- the_holy_tree.html
- Olney Hymn 64: Praise For Faith by William Cowper
- Devonshire Street W.1 poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul by William Cowper
- Hast Thou A Song For A Flower by William Gilmore Simms
- Владимир Луговской – Остролистник
- Sonnet 150: O from what power hast thou this powerful might by William Shakespeare
- Юлия Жадовская – Чем ярче шумный пир
- Gordon Of Brackley poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Poem of Joys. by Walt Whitman
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).
