Lessons the Sidewalk Man Taught

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  • HalfAwake
  • For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient. -Revolution

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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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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