Marge Piercy Good Poems

  • 1.
    You strop my anger, especially
    when I find you in restaurant or bar
    and pay for the same liquid, coming and going.
    In bus depots and airports and turnpike plazas
    ...
  • 2.
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    The dark socket of the year
    the pit, the cave where the sun lies down
    ...
  • 3.
    A heap of wheat, says the Song of Songs
    but I've never seen wheat in a pile.
    Apples, potatoes, cabbages, carrots
    make lumpy stacks, but you are sleek
    ...
  • 4.
    In flat America, in Chicago,
    Graceland cemetery on the German North Side.
    Forty feet of Corinthian candle
    celebrate Pullman embedded
    ...
  • 5.
    Girls buck the wind in the grooves toward work
    in fuzzy coats promised to be warm as fur.
    The shop windows snicker
    flashing them hurrying over dresses they cannot afford:
    ...
Total 5 Good Poems by Marge Piercy

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The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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