this is great
there is a nursery-tale simplicity to it that feels as if it carries in it's
lightness some weighty message about the chanciness of life
good one
Terri )O(
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From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Gary B
Sent: 06 September 2002 20:40
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Subject: Green Grapes
Green Grapes
on the corner of Second and Seneca
a pretty girl eats green grapes
from a paper sack
she pulls one out
holds it to the gray-white sky
rolls it between her pink fingers
one in the gutter
then another
one in her mouth
another
and another
she noshes and tosses
until the number 5 bus arrives
throws the bag in a trashcan
pulls up her sagging slip
steps onto the bus
pigeons drop to the street
peck at the grapes
one discarded
one eaten
one on the bottom of a brown shoe
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