Good People . . .

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    When the great lord passes the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts- Ethiopian proverb

    Good People . . .

     Outstretched arm holds out vulgar palms
    sullen faces with tearful eyes
    we humbly beg, begging for jingling alms
    accompanied by our rags, filth and flies

    Upon your street corners we sit and wait
    sometimes in bands but often alone
    on the curbed side of your exulted gate
    we croak our dirge on cushions of stone

    But you walk on by silent and blind
    blinded to our wares of crippled feet
    our ragged costume sun bleached to meet
    our naked souls protesting with broken wind

    A coin jingles amongst its kin, fiftyone in the plate
    a beggarly alm from a beggarly arm
    springs a toothless smile frozen with charm
    hawking our wares patiently though its late

    On the face of a crested moon we retire
    a nation of good beggars we truly aspire

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    Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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