Richmond Leake, 53 Newstand Dealer

This poem is about a man that no one listened to, his teachers and wife didn't have time to listen because they were always too busy with they're own lives. I can infer that he was a black man because he worked for a white man and the white man was rich so he made sure Richmond didn't steal anything. Richmond must feel like he's isolated from people because no one listens to him and even though people think that hes crazy for talking to himself, but he thinks thats just fine. I think this poem means that it's o.k to ask you're self questions and find the answer you're self.