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A View From a Windowless Room

January 12, 2016
By IndigoWaltz PLATINUM, Newport Beach, California
IndigoWaltz PLATINUM, Newport Beach, California
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;A witty quote proves nothing&quot;<br /> -Voltaire


The intense grey flourished there
Among the quiet weepers
With lampshades hung
On heads looking low
Never to know
The misplaced joy of angels
in the sky

Those sneering angels
Who never die
Choking on their haloes happily

And the money men living
Right next door
Losing grip on lanterns burning
Redder than the stains
On their penny-pinching hands

What can you do when
You're helplessly dragged
Into the scorching sands of poverty


The author's comments:

This was a homework assignment for my history class describing what it was like living in the tenenments in Chicogo in the late 1800s-early 1900s


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