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
- I’m Sexy and I Know It by Aiyah De Torres
- Everything He Did, He Did In Jest by stanley wilkin
- Василий Жуковский – Торжество победителей
- Владимир Британишский – Есть добрая, есть и дурная слава
- Николай Языков – Сказка о пастухе и диком вепре
- Muttering by Satish Verma
- Николай Глазков – Про чертей
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка лягушонка Джимми и ящерки Билли
- To Me by William Barnes
- Your Dog Dies by Raymond Carver
- Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- O Sun of Real Peace. by Walt Whitman
- Яков Полонский – Цветок
- Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The ‘Botanic Garden.’ by William Cowper
- Anecdote Of The Jar by Wallace Stevens
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).
