The Goddam Street
by Robert Coles
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- I know her children,
- have seen them getting ready
- for what she calls
- "the goddam street."
- Each child has been held
- and breast-fed in ways
- well-nourished mothers might envy.
- In the cold rat-infested flat
- there is lively warmth
- between mother and babies,
- songs, smiles, sighs.
- "I don't know how to do it,
- how to keep my kids
- from getting stained, ruined
- I keep them close to me.
- they can tell how much
- I want for it to be good,
- so, I hope they'll make it,
- and I stop, say a prayer —
- not expecting prayer to be
- answered, not around here."
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Poverty & Health: July/August 1999
Volume/Issue: Issue 10
Publisher: Park Ridge Center, Chicago
Date: July, 1999.
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