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dickens Scavengers in a Truck, Two splendiferous People in a Mercedes and Nothings Changed Two Scavengers in a Truck,Two dishy People in a Mercedes (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) andNothings Changed (Tatamkhulu Afrika)The American shaping clearly states that all men are createdequally and should commence the corresponding opportunities as each other. However,Ferlinghetti believes this is non true. In his observation he visits thegarbagemen or scavengers tired and weary from their route, workinghard still still in unavoidable poverty. Also using a word likescavengers he compares the garbagemen to rodents scrounging a livingat the bottom of society. He then sees the neat couple in anelegant Mercedes, loving their life, not a bursting charge in the serviceman, bothwealthy and smart. The wo adult male so casually coifed and the man in ahip three piece suit who, have both benefited from the inequality ofthe American Constitution, taking it easy in their heavenly life.Ferlinghetti un derstands the unfairness of the Constitution but knowsdeep down that it cannot change and will never change.In the poem Ferlinghetti makes many contrasts between the scavengersand the elegant couple. The call shows us straight away that the poemwill be intimately the contrasts between two pairs of people. Scavengersis a derogatory term for the garbagemen because it suggests that theylive tally the rubbish of others - a scavenger beetle lives off rottingflesh. However, Beautiful People is a compliment. So, right from thestart, we feel the garbagemen are at a disadvantage. Ferlinghetti alsochose these words to describe their different classes, as they are safe indications of who they are and what they do for a living.Scavenger impl... ...o both speak near the corruption ofthe systems of which they are under. Ferlinghetti uses the phraseacross that small gulfIn the high seasof this democracyThis simple phrase begs the interrogatory - Is this really a democracy?Afrika chooses not to ask the question directly, but expects you toask the question yourself. In his autobiography he wroteWe may have a immature constitution, we may have on the face of it abeautiful democracy, but the racism in this country is absolutelyredolent. We try to pretend to the world that it does not exist, butit most certainly does, all day keen-sighted, every day, shocking andsaddening and terrible. I am full of hope. But I wont see a change inmy lifetime. Its going to take a long time. In America its taken allthis time and its still not gone... So it will change. But notquickly, not quickly at all.