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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIRAGE, by GERALDINE WILLIS
First Line: I met them playing in an alley-way
Last Line: And tottered in the gutter of the street.
Subject(s): Poverty
First Line: I met them playing in an alley-way
Last Line: And tottered in the gutter of the street.
Subject(s): Poverty
I MET them playing in an alley-way,
An organ and a monkey and a man.
And ragged children danced about in play,
Forgetting misery as children can.
Up rose she from the curb and brushed her hair
From out her bleary eyes, grinned, jigged her feet,
Plucked at her skirt, cursed softly in despair,
And tottered in the gutter of the street.
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