Going Home Amidst the Lost People
GOING HOME AMIDST THE LOST PEOPLE
Little boy eight and grandma
Spoke to him about his poor behavior
He snapped back without eye contact
Like talking to a pinball machine
The usual woman in the pie van wasn’t there
A substitute man was there, I saw -
glanced at - his pies and his soviet face and
Decided to walk on by, pieless
Outside the metro an old lady dignified and
Well dressed standing smartly
Holding a balloon like a flag of defeat
For sale to the passing crowd
Inheriting nothing of their own rich culture,
Acquiring all the cheapest baubles of the west,
This is a lost people.
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(See it for yourself any day in St. Petersburg, Russia)
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