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
- These Are The Clouds by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – Дом сумасшедших в Дерпте
- Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
- His Last Request to Julia by Robert Herrick
- Владимир Британишский – Молодой Толстой
- Hope by Walter William Safar
- I Know From my Bed by Michael Lee Johnson
- Владимир Корнилов – Муки свободы
- Strada’s Nightingale by William Cowper
- The Realists by William Butler Yeats
- A Dialogue Between Thyrsis And Dorinda poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The workers by Sunil Sharma
- The Labyrinth by W H Auden
- Омар Хайям – О доколе ты по свету будешь кружить
- Sonnet CXXXV by William Shakespeare
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).
