sitting inside his cardboard box he watched the legs of connoisseurs businessmen and businesswomen pass by his portal on 53rd street meditating upon the meaning of their lives confined to those finely pressed corporate suits and skirts and decided that they all had one thing in common death
we all have birth and death in common its what we try do do with our lives where things differ some struggle eveeryday some are born into wealth but they do not get the experience of life as they should i often wonder what its like sitting in a box just watching xxjen
hmmm..i’m one of those in a corporate skirt and sometimes when i pass those at the side of the streets, i’m wondering who the winners and the losers are..good write charles
As e. e. cummings wrote “we do/ not sell and buy/ things so necessary as/ is death and unlike shirts/ neckties trousers/we cannot wear it out/… ourselves against the worms/ hate laugh shimmy” I had been away from your blog far too long– caught up now in a nice with-coffee morning hour. Thanks for your bouquet of insights!
Read Between the Minds 
First reaction: oh my gawd… *jaw drops* @ the last line.
And then I was silent for a long while…
Grim. Sad.
What an incredible perspective, Charles–even from inside the image itself. Well done.
Thought provoking write…strikes at the core.
What an interesting way you chose to present this, but it is so real life,and so true. Love the pic
phillosophically its a wise truth, casually pessimistic view.
we all have birth and death in common its what we try do do with our lives where things differ some struggle eveeryday some are born into wealth but they do not get the experience of life as they should i often wonder what its like sitting in a box just watching xxjen
hmmm..i’m one of those in a corporate skirt and sometimes when i pass those at the side of the streets, i’m wondering who the winners and the losers are..good write charles
Very true, the one thing we all have in common.
no matter whats in the middle, the beginning and end is the same
amazing. both the picture and the poem. wow
The great equalizer?
I like this-
Another excellent poem Charles
Without a doubt, we do all have that in common… Great image.
Oh yeah, the suits now have skirts too. Good point!
As e. e. cummings wrote “we do/ not sell and buy/ things so necessary as/ is death and unlike shirts/ neckties trousers/we cannot wear it out/… ourselves against the worms/ hate laugh shimmy” I had been away from your blog far too long– caught up now in a nice with-coffee morning hour. Thanks for your bouquet of insights!