Everybody by Marie Sheppard Williams : American Life in Poetry #243 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2

Lots of contemporary poems are anecdotal, a brief narration of some event, and what can make them rise above anecdote is when they manage to convey significance, often as the poem closes. Here is an example of one like that, by Marie Sheppard Williams, who lives in Minneapolis.
Everybody

I stood at a bus corner