We wait as worldwide

The global patient peasant waits

Squatting on our heels

Standing, sitting if we can

Some of us still smoking cigarettes

Tho more and more smoking is disallowed

We wait patiently, why

Because it is better than work

Because poor people control no schedules--

Not even their own

We wait because we have no choice

The bus will be here when it gets here

We stare or text or talk to ourselves

Not at all like the busy self-important

People at airport who wait loudly

Busily, angrily pissedoffedly

Talking loudly on their phones foolishly

Acting like theirs is the only schedule

In this wide world

Kockeying in line as if their seat

Is subject to loss to someone louder

Or more unpleasant or angrier

The peasant wide has waited long

He will wait longer still

Until his is the world.

Photo    Children waiting for the bus     Creative Commons 3.0