A poet, and revolutionary (not alone I am sure) amongst us! Ruth -----Original Message----- From: Alice Weiss [mailto:amjweiss@alum.barnard.edu] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 10:36 AM To: 'Ruth Ryals' Subject: Dewey Square2 Hi Ruth Here's the poem I promised to send. I thought you could put it on the Buena vista site more effectively than I could. Also to let everyone know that I will be reading my poetry at Occupy Boston at 2 PM, Thursday, Oct 27. Thanks. Here's the text in email. I send the attachment because e-mail doesn't always keep the lineation in transmission. Dewey Square Ramrod grim plain-clothes cops, standing like debt, dome tents and canopies, blue plastic tarps, discolored and smudged like a street woman's topcoat, boxes of carrots, battered apples piled up containers of supermarket bread, scribbled on cardboard, people in clumps arguing, praying, airing their tents from last night's rain. a sukkot, a stage, duct tape a T-shirted apple eyed string quartet plays early Beethoven, canticle, call and response lapping through waves of discourse and demand, a portable bigger-than life size plaster statue of Gandhi, everything bronzed including the eyeglasses down on his nose tied by a cord to what might be a light post a shawl of Indian cotton around his shoulders, gold entwined in the red figured weave, his right hand open, held shoulder high, and a Johnson's Band Aid wrapped tightly around the thumb of his left as if in all of us running to grab his hand and hold on, we had rubbed the skin raw and we fixed it with whatever we had around. We still need him.