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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Bodenheim [1]

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Date: 2023-09-08  

In me is a little painted square

Bordered by old shops, with gaudy awnings.

And before the shops sit smoking, open-bloused old men,

Drinking sunlight.

The old men are my thoughts:

And I come to them each evening, in a creaking cart,

And quietly unload supplies.

We fill slim pipes and chat,

And inhale scents from pale flowers in the center of the square . . .

Strong men, tinkling women, and dripping, squealing children

Stroll past us, or into the shops.

They greet the shopkeepers, and touch their hats or foreheads to me . . .

Some evening I shall not return to my people.

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