Pleasure Dome by Komunyakaa Yusef
Author:Komunyakaa, Yusef
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2013-02-14T16:00:00+00:00
The Cops Call Him Charlie
An olive groveâs his only country.
Without family or friends, fifty
years after the woman on the wharf
waved to him & the roots of acacia
embraced her, this old Greekâs
moored in the Tropic of Capricorn.
He digs into a sandpile
street workers left for Monday,
gazing at the faces of women
dodging confusion & wet cement.
They spin from the weight of his eyes.
His dirty clothes & grimy hands
flag down three petty officials
who write in their notebooks
& leave him talking to a lamppost.
Shoeless, with smudged eyeglasses
posed on an orange beanie,
he moves to the middle of the street
& leans on a shovel, surveying the scene
like a foreman, as cars screech & burn
rubber around him. I walk away, afraid,
wondering if we suffer the same illness:
Seeing without having to look.
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