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
- We put the urn aboard ship by Sappho
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я был слесарь шестого разряда
- Robert Burns: Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive:
- Observation Car
- Once A Great Love by Yehuda Amichai
- Жан де Лафонтен – Голубь и Муравей
- Unloved, unmoved by Maria Jastine Golo
- Encounter In The Chestnut Avenue by Rainer Maria Rilke
- I Know From my Bed by Michael Lee Johnson
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- The Ploughman’s Life by Robert Burns
- The Ballad Of The Foxhunter by William Butler Yeats
- Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech’s Absence by Robert Burns
- The Storm by Sara Teasdale
- The Dunciad: Book IV poem – Alexander Pope
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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).
