I have chosen to write about "Nothing's Changed" and "Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes". In "Nothing's Changed" the inequality is based on black and white people, and "Two Scavengers..." is about the rich and poor division. As the name suggests, Two Scavengers in a truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is about two people in a garbage truck, and two people in a Mercedes waiting at a red …showed first 75 words of 1264 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1264 total…are juxtaposed all through the poem, but at the end are not joined. In conclusion, both poems have a strong message in them, which could be considered a similarity or a difference; although they both have a message about division, they are completely different types of division. I believe that Nothing's Changed has a stronger message than two scavengers... because of the way it is written, but Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem still has a strong message.