Her arms semaphore fat triangles,
Pudgy HANDS bunched on layered hips
Where bones idle under years of fatback
And lima beans.
Her jowls shiver in accusation
Of crimes cliched by Repetition.
Her children, strangers
To childhood’s TOYS, play
Best the games of darkened doorways,
Rooftop tag, and know the slick feel of
Other people’s property.
Too fat to whore,
Too mad to work,
Searches her dreams for the
Lucky sign and walks bare-handed
Into a den of bereaucrats for her portion.
‘They don’t give me welfare.
I take it.’
End of the poem
15 random poems
- One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein
- To his Majestie by William Alexander
- Of Clementina by Walter Savage Landor
- Жан де Лафонтен – Врачи
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: Is it, then, regret for buried time poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Bonnie Earl Moray poem – Andrew Lang poems
- You Personify God’s Message by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Виктор Гончаров – Когда тебя бессонной ночью
- Kyrenaikos
- Владимир Маяковский – Дешевая распродажа
- Gentlmen-Rankers by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Языков – Давным-давно люблю я страстно
- Long Odds poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- The Sailor’s Mother by William Wordsworth
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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).
