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
- Arms And The Boy by Wilfred Owen
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел и Сова
- Яков Полонский – Откуда
- Orpheus by William Shakespeare
- Alchemy by Sara Teasdale
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2 poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Вологдин – Не играйте, мальчики, в войну
- The Lady’s Third Song by William Butler Yeats
- A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices by Stephen Crane
- Defamation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Юлия Жадовская – Чем ярче шумный пир
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- And their feet move by Sappho
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear’st love to any by William Shakespeare
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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).
