All Comments on 'All his shirts are torn'

poignant, it made me want to cry. The metaphor of the mop was a masterstroke. Reads with your usual genius, as

I want to vote on this! Anna - you never fail to take my breath away.

Tess

is a man or woman who does not resent what they do for a dollar but see their job as important as exchanging financial statements or flipping a burger. I was smiling because I read the whole poem <grin '10'

done that and to this day glad that i don't have to do that anymore. but can honestly say that i picked up my share of pennies. simply a great job in conveying it. nicely done anna......don

a bit on the telly, preachy side

Congrats, you reached a new audience.

I watch another work the floor

sipping warm brown security

my heart goes out and back again

an empty bomerang of sympathy

what goes around comes around

I wonder as I wonder about this one

I wonder who wonders about me

I guess I don't know preachy from telly. I do know that the words in this poem stir up all kinds of feelings in me. I especially like:

"and one by one all of the women

he knew from the time of halter tops

and swimming holes are losing their memory

their minds their control

they rearrange furniture and trip over ghosts"

Appearances so deceptive;

Consider the alternative perhaps,

A refrigerator box house and a life dumpster diving.

Even the people on the low end of our economic scale ~ also have their hopes, dreams and ambitions ~ however lowly they may be.

you never did anything with this? it is one of your loveliest poems, ever.

you never did anything with this? it is one of your loveliest poems, ever.