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
- Love and Law by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Queen O’ The Fair:
- Robert Burns: Wandering Willie: First Version
- The Journey by Rabindranath Tagore
- Mediums. by Walt Whitman
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Валерий Брюсов – Двадцать лет назад ты умерла
- The Bonnie House O’ Airly poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me by William Shakespeare
- To a Western Boy. by Walt Whitman
- Hora Stellatrix poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Hope poem – John Keats poems
- There Are A Hundred Kinds Of Prayer (Quatrain in Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Николай Карамзин – К портрету Ломоносова
- Sonnet Of Motherhood X poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
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