Belligerent Poetry

how japanese women are godlike in the morning

walking to work
8am and two ladies
hat'ed & gloved
pick leaves
and sweep with tiny brooms
smiles on their faces
at set tasks and their places
subtleties of personal relaxation and contemplation
long lost on a culture
developed to worship the dollar
where when how why
must this all come from
our social guise
and misplace their so clearly evident
sense of grace?

-wil 9.11.02