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
- Thou and You poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Fruit Garden Path poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate by William Shakespeare
- Михаил Кузмин – Зимнее солнце
- Canto XLIX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor
- Moonlight On The Door by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor:
- Robert Burns: Out Over The Forth:
- Doomes-Day: The Tenth Houre by William Alexander
- Life and Love by Nithin Purple
- The Woodlands by William Barnes
- Константин Бальмонт – Музыка
- Николай Некрасов – Вор
- Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open 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).
