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A View From a Windowless Room
January 12, 2016
The intense grey flourished there
Among the quiet weepers
With lampshades hung
On heads looking low
Never to know
The misplaced joy of angels
in the sky
Those sneering angels
Who never die
Choking on their haloes happily
And the money men living
Right next door
Losing grip on lanterns burning
Redder than the stains
On their penny-pinching hands
What can you do when
You're helplessly dragged
Into the scorching sands of poverty
© Yaniris M., Boston, MA
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This was a homework assignment for my history class describing what it was like living in the tenenments in Chicogo in the late 1800s-early 1900s