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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 3. City Seen
City Seen
A passenger by car one day I rode
and buckled in my place was I detained
when government or chance construction code
decreed a halt, all traffic was detained.
About us rose a shadowed cityscape,
for multistoried castles masked the sky;
I took the opportunity to gape
at life in civic glory passing by.
I thus beheld an eddy in the throng,
a chapel where the suited ones might pray
stood open while the homeless moved along;
but dapper fundamentalists could stay.
Beside the brassy door a hooded man,
perhaps a boy, I really couldn't tell,
sat solitary in his pavement hell,
as only dwellers in the hopeless can.
While I remarked emotions all at play
above the shiny shoes and topcoats long,
still none would stray to help the man in grey;
no Levite stooped for one in garments wrong.
Before I could unbelt, a sainted guy
gave hand to him who begged, a brief escape,
and led the boy into a cafe nigh;
perhaps a hero, though he wore no cape.
I thought to cheer, yet something unexplained
still bothered me while sitting in the road:
I sought the diner window, neck all craned,
to see the promised breakfast then bestowed.
I couldn't, and it seemed a little strange;
was charity afoot or just exchange?
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