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
- Sonnet (X) : In the search of the physical immortality by Neelam Sinha
- For The Anniversary Of My Death by W. S. Merwin
- Arhan poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Run to Death poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Vision of the Archangels. Руперт Брук.
- Confessional Hurt by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- Alexander
- William Gilmore Simms – William Gilmore Simms
- Николай Гумилев – Когда я был влюблен
- Claribel: A Melody poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Miscast II poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A poem to mankind by Walter William Safar
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