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
- Вероника Тушнова – Я стою у открытой двери
- Омар Хайям – Лик розы освежен дыханием весны
- “Brook! Whose Society The Poet Seeks” by William Wordsworth
- Song—The Birks of Aberfeldy by Robert Burns
- София Парнок – В земле бесплодной не взойти зерну
- Their Frailty by Siegfried Sassoon
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Плач
- Finding by Rupert Brooke
- Sonnet CXXVII by William Shakespeare
- Loud Silence by Preethi Saravanakumar
- As In Their Flight The Birds Of Song by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race by Vachel Lindsay
- Иван Дмитриев – Сверчки
- From The Frontier Of Writing by Seamus Heaney
- Neglecting the Word of God: A Foundational Cause of Lukewarmness
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).
