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# Park Bench Encounters
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/park-bench-encounters/
- Published: 2021-07-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Sitting on adjacent park benches, one juggles noisy babes with customers the other tries to listen to the silence
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Sitting on adjacent park benches,  
one juggles noisy babes with customers  
the other tries to listen to the silence

then starts humming Aqualung

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**Author notes:** wc 23 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783446-Picture-Prompt-Brevity-or-Free-Verse Jethro Tull's Aqualang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jMPI\_pUec