Robert Creeley: The Times

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East Wind over Weehawken: Edward Hopper, 1934 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)

If they had something
to worry about these
people wouldn't sit there
thinking about what

doesn't even exist they
would take each day as it
comes and thank their
lucky stars they had

enough to eat it says here
it reflects the hopeless
times make what isn't
the case all that is.

Robert Creeley: The Times, from Places (1990)