Question

a poem about neighborhood in 10 lines ​

Answer 1

Answer:

neighborhood

Explanation:

The young man has finished his lunch

and is picking his teeth behind his hand.

The bird scratches in the cage, showering

him with canary seed and bird droppings.

I consider picking one’s teeth unsightly;

he only went to primary school

and his bad grammar grates on me.

But he’s got a man’s rump so seductive

I fall desperately in love with him.

Young men like him

like to wolf their food:

beef and rice, a slice of tomato

and off to the movies

with that face of invincible weakness

for capital sins.

I feel so intimate, simple,

so touchable – because of love,

a slow samba,

because of the fact that we’re going to die

and a refrigerator is a wonderful thing,

and the crucifix his mother gave him,

its gold chain against that frail chest –

that …

He scrapes at his teeth with the toothpick,

he scrapes at my strumpet heart.