Tuesday, August 28, 2018

THE SQUARE


People who used to sleep in Madison Square
Chased away so swings and a dog run
Could be built -- have returned as ghosts
Arguing in languages no two of them understand.
The pigeons nowadays make hoarse noises;
They've either become heavy smokers
Or are studying to be crows. A statue
Has been put up of a female torso,
Shredded and melting. Attempts by monuments
To James Madison, Chester A. Arthur,
Admiral David Farragut and William Seward
To engage her attention have failed
Perhaps; it's hard to tell
At what a headless woman is looking.

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