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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PUSH-CART, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography First Line: If you haven't the push-cart mind Last Line: To be buried in. Subject(s): New York City; Peddlers & Peddling; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple | |||
If you haven't the push-cart mind, can't nose your way in amongst, out ahead of your competitors, buffeting them aside, dumping them over, if need be, driving up to the curb, first and foremost and loudest, hawking your wares ten times louder than they and selling them ten times cheaper -- squeezing them down, choking them bankrupt -- a cent against a dime, a dime against a dollar -- and can't escape the hundred-eyed, hundred-eared minion of the law who's with you if you win, but God help you if you lose: New York, the sublimation of Hester Street, will hardly be the place with a pocket-book like yours for you to buy a coffin to be buried in. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...READY FOR THE CANNERY by BERTON BRALEY TRANTER IN AMERICA by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS by KENNETH KOCH FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK by DENISE LEVERTOV ON 52ND STREET by PHILIP LEVINE THREE POEMS FOR NEW YORK by JOSEPHINE MILES NEW YORK SUBWAY by HILDA MORLEY FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG PEEWEE by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG |
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