#375. max and yetta (ldw2
September 4, 2010
lower east side
hard buzz
labored middle
knowing everyone
is here with me frantic piece
work peace the best that can be done?
i can smell the burning clothes
still i share the sorrows
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lower east side
hard buzz
labored middle
knowing everyone
is here with me frantic piece
work peace the best that can be done?
i can smell the burning clothes
still i share the sorrows
It seemed strange to me that so many images could be packed into this poem…but I saw myself seeing images of immigrants to NY…the life they lived and some sense of the holocaust..probably read too much into it…but that’s what I saw in the poem.
“i can smell the burning clothes
still i share the sorrows ”
this is beautiful, but I dont know if I get it…
ghosts of ny…my grandparents on lower east side 1920’s…union organizers…and the triangle shirtwaist sweatshop fire