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The Blues of the
19th Street Beggar
Rasta man his song. Oh!
The rooster-spur necklace
with the chrome beads. Yes!
Jailbar hair
spitty voice
with backup provided by
accordion polkas
on the window ledge.
Rasta man two-steps the gritty concrete
totally buzzed,
Australasian wine.
Here now, city,
unclassifiable,
blind as the tapping of a human Jerusalem.
Cell phone amusement?
Take a shot; used to it.
Sing and laugh and whaddaya know,
rosy cornucopia-man?
Listen to the sempiternal snicker of the chewing gum;
Pass him by, Shy-Man? Strolling with directory?
Your whimsical actual coin--
raise to the lip,
drop to the cup.
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