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
- Иннокентий Анненский – Любовь к прошлому
- Константин Бальмонт – Четыре источника
- Николай Языков – Романс (Красой небесною прекрасна)
- Robert Burns: The Fete Champetre:
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- October, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Quarrel In Old Age by William Butler Yeats
- A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Олег Бундур – Папа собирается на рыбалку
- Till I Wake
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Robert Burns: The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie: An Unco Mournfu’ Tale
- Владимир Луговской – Краски
- Валерий Брюсов – Дрожащие листья на бледные щеки
- Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
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).
