Livin w/ Joyce

Today's Raising

Mr. Brecht

does not know anything about us

& just nearly a kilometer after

but before the eight mile

& just after the seventh

there’s a road junction

& there are holes in the asphalt

it is not easy at all

thru these days of US

men dragging themselves on woodward

carts skin cloths on the street

gloves pierced hats, somethin'

barb wire for hundreds meters

bent wooden planks

pocked benches of cement

statues of saints from distant europe

they mourn with invoking arms

today’s raising

in black people's words

who did not have a steady job

for over forty years

a newspaper reports new operations

in the financial market

ceo men earn a large amount of money

from the new company.

The Beatles

Stevie Ray Vaughan