Talking Weeds by Deborah S ReganTalking Weeds
Coins falling from a grating,
miss me by threads
dear heaven, she picks up
a leaflet
says the undertow dissipates promptly
and cries for each disease
but nuclear abandon makes us defeatist
failing to cure measles, let alone....
You see no children in the economy,
worm infestations flicker on the GDP
the weeds in concrete scream to avoid them,
relics of the sixties, when urban blight bothered
Mother, were alone and nobody takes
care of anybody except in words of responsibility
01/16/2004 Posted on 01/17/2004 Copyright © 2025 Deborah S Regan
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