Black and white people in a
Black and white photo
Sitting by the street on a hot day in L.A. 1962
Colourless trees, grass, flowers
And fountain spray decorate
the busy park behind their bench
Sitting by the street on a hot day in L.A. 1962
Those real people sit there,
At one with their place
Smoking cigarettes,
sleeping, yawning, chatting,
reading the newspaper,
Sitting by the street on a hot day in L.A. 1962
Six young white women,
In colourless dresses
Sit in the middle of the bench
One young black man
In a white shirt
At one end
Talking to a white woman,
And an old white man
In a black suit
At the other
Reading the newspaper
Perhaps they are waiting for a bus
Or maybe they are just being there?
Everything seems fine
Sitting by the street on a hot day in L.A. 1962.
-Job