Three Chairs

Why are there three chairs with their legs cut off? 

Are they nailed to the ground, or can I grab one and run?

It looks like a waiting room, but outside on a stoop?

So desolate and bare, who might actually sit there?

Young children in the summer licking cold italian ices? 

Or old women sharing gossip in the middle of the day?

I see three chairs and wonder why are they there?

Alone and unoccupied, the past faintly glimmers by.