Where Children Sleep
Golden child
Dimpled and tanned,
Clad like a bumblebee,
Sleeps surrounded by crowns, trophies, and blue ribbons
Romanian boy
With resigned eyes,
Sleeps on an uncovered mattress strewn with leaves,
Overlooking the lights of Rome
Seven year old girl
With wild hair, draped in flannel,
Holds a small hammer,
Works in the granite quarry and
Sleeps in one room with her family,
With tumbling bricks and thatched roof in Katmandu
Skinny boy
Holding a bag of refuge
Lives in a trash heap in Cambodia and
Sleeps on top of abandoned tires on a dirty sheet in Phnom Penh
Young man in three piece suit
With arrogant eyes
Sleeps in his tidy bedroom on Fifth Avenue or Spain or the Hamptons
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