Measuring Your Social Responsibility

Seven Dash MacIntyre poems about living in and contributing to society.

Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash

Everybody Do Your Part

I was somewhere in harlem in the one-hundred-forties

waiting for the white walker sign to let me cross

when I was grabbed by the arm

and found a head nestling into my shoulder and neck

and I pulled out an ear bud

and heard the aggressive heckling

of licentious things about her body

and she looked back and told him

my boyfriend will beat your ass

so I stood up a little taller and looked back

and pointed at him with my finger

and he stopped and walked back the other way

muttering about women these days

and as we crossed the street

she made sure he was gone

and she took a left

and I continued on.

Bookstore Wall Spider

the bookstore wall spider waits in the corner