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Los Angeles Please Hear Me
by Kitty NessYou want me.
Or you want the best part of me
to take
and dry up.
I'm not saying
that I won't give it to you
freely, eagerly,
without regret.
But I have to resist a little
to pay tribute to my home
that baked me
out of clay and bones and flowers.
The only soul you have
in your parallel curbs
your orange beauty machine
and your subverted and exploited nature
is the soul
of the latest
lifestyle
immigrant. 01/23/2005 Posted on 01/23/2005
Copyright © 2025 Kitty Ness
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 01/24/05 at 07:29 AM Kitty, I love this poem. I'm from the NYC area originally and for a long time LA was such a stranger to me. I especially like the 3rd stanza. Good work!
~Chelle~ |
| Posted by Sarah Graves on 03/03/05 at 09:14 PM I really enjoyed reading this, full of human struggles.. and awareness. Great work.. :) |
| Posted by Eli Skipp on 03/03/06 at 12:53 PM Loving this poem very much, as a lover of city-poems as well as of Los Angeles, I think you captured it all very well. |
| Posted by Scott Utley on 01/31/07 at 04:32 AM This is clear and powerful. LA has a urban aridity. It is full of reasons to take note in the poems of great poets, such as yourself. Inspired. |
| Posted by Frankie Sanchez on 09/22/09 at 05:13 AM i could not agree more. |
| Posted by Morgan D Hafele on 11/10/11 at 09:26 PM what a way to convey living in that city. |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 01/30/14 at 02:41 PM Congratulations on POTD and certainly worth the reading. |
| Posted by Gilly Wigley on 01/30/14 at 03:04 PM Wonderful! Congrats on POTD!! |
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