Lessons the Sidewalk Man Taught
The man who sits in layers and layers
While people walk by and by and by
Who raises a hand that shakes and shakes
To ask for the things that lesser men take
The man whose eyes just move and move
If they stop, he’ll see, things haven’t improved
Searching for things that the drugs took
While his hands just shook and shook
I stop and sit and stare and stare
At the strange things that happen there
In a world I can never know
In a place that good girls never go
I look at the man and shake and shake
He knows things that could make me break
He said “This is what the secret is
Forget fear and live and live!”
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