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marcel Senior Member
since 2003-03-02
Posts 660az, usa |
Insignificant A homeless man awakens with a sighing smile Folding up his card board home Grateful to the blaring sun As a policeman watches from across the street Drinking coffee and eating a jelly donut Around the corner taxi cab drivers wash their moneymakers And street vendors stump out cigarette butts on graffiti painted slabs While businessmen pretending to read “The Wall Street Journal” Blindly toss silver coins to the newspaperman Unseen to the world outside are old folks in small apartments Thanking God for allowing them to live another day And on the other side of town a yellow bus drives to the suburbs To the dismay of black youngsters who integrate their thoughts on “Bussing” A pigeon sh-ts A squirrel scratches a nut And that same homeless man Prays it doesn’t rain. Marcel |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
seeing the world through your eyes~~ M |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
loved the last 4 lines. enjoyed this one My spirit will rise |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
this poem makes me so sad/angry at the same time....as I really hate it, when society, cannot/no, a better word is, refuses to take care of their own, rejecting them...it will not be long until the money mongers pay their dues, unfortunately, they will drag all of us down with them... Thank you for this...it should make every one who reads feel sheer humility... |
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