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
- Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: Tam O’ Shanter: A Tale
- Владимир Набоков – Вдали от берега, в мерцании морском
- The Red Lacquer Music-Stand poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Кондратий Рылеев – К Фролову
- София Парнок – И голос окликнул тебя среди ночи
- To Melancholy- Written On An intensely agitated Day by Nithin Purple
- The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Кролики
- Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- Новелла Матвеева – Иней
- Владимир Маяковский – Порядочный гражданин
- Song—A Man’s a Man for a’ that by Robert Burns
- Вера Павлова – Время бежит на время
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).
