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
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Собачий пир
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 7. Dark house, by which once more I s poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- One Sweeps By. by Walt Whitman
- Lucky by Tony Hoagland
- Breath by Ryssel Guzman
- Woman And The Weed poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sonnet # 18 by Luis A. Estable
- Journey Of The Magi by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Попугая
- Владимир Маяковский – Подлиза
- The Human Tragedy ACT IV poem – Alfred Austin
- Piety poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Где живут мысли
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, уралец! Без помощи твоего рудника не победить разруху никак (Агитплакаты)
- Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
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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).
