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 Набоков – Как часто я в поезде скором
- Forbidden Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- Олег Сердобольский – Перемена
- On Seeing the Ladies Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto. poem – Alexander Pope
- Ode to Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
- A Prayer in the Prospect of Death by Robert Burns
- The Withdrawal by Robert Lowell
- Владимир Орлов – Очень хорошая девочка Яна
- Ок Мельникова – Блюз-16
- Ballade Of The Southern Cross poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Farewell To Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- Isaiah LXIII by Phillis Wheatley
- I shall not be a shame by Torm Gardson
- Shattered Dreams. Broken Promises. by Russell James
- Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
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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).
