Starving Man’s
Neighbors Let Him Die City workers reported a man, weak and crawling on his apartment floor, Desperately eating only bread for months, unpaid water bill, Legs the size of toy clarinets. One neighbor said, “The city acted correctly.” He was still young, Could’ve taken any job to
feed himself. Another neighbor, who played with the dead man when they were children Said he was filled with regret. Swallows fly out broken
window, green bottleflies
in their beaks. 12
October 2007 [Published in Mantra Winds: Poems 2004-2010. © 2010 by Jim
Cohn.] |
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