| these days... |
and all this while I have been playing with toys a toy superhighway, a toy automobile, a house of blocks and all this while far off in other lands thousands and thousands, millions and millions you know - you see the pictures women carrying bony infants men sobbing over graves buildings sculpted by explosion - earth wasted bare and rotten and all this while I have been shopping, I have been let us say, free and do they hate me for it do they hate me? - Alicia Ostriker |