| The People In The City Sitting here on the cold concrete waiting for the untimely bus my mind starts to wander It wanders into a sea of thoughts There must be a thousand or more people that I see each day They all have some destination that they are going to I wish I knew where they were going Over there is a man who probablly has a highly stressful pencil pushing job that he wants to leave badly A child who is being beaten by her mother looks into my eyes in a plea of help Sitting beside me is a woman who is obese She is unhappy with her weight as she devours another Snickers bar, regret is the only outcome Teenagers gathered in a circle discussing all sorts of thing that are appropriate in the world that they have formed for them selves Comming towards me is an eldely man and woman The man has a cane in his left hand and with his right helps the woman he loves walk on her own two feet Sitting here on the concrete my mind wanders... |
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