A haggard old man
rifles and digs
the public trash
can---black steel
bands bound---next
the red, white, blue
and black bus stop
sign.
He finds a piece
bits and eats it.
A man waiting for
the bus watches on
with two six-inch sub
sandwiches hanging in
a sack from his
hand.
He sees the old
man search diligently
eat shamelessly out
of need and is over-
come by profound
disgust, so that his
face twists, lips
turn down, eyebrows
slant, nose crinkles
wrinkles black lines
like a crumbled news-
paper, pity pangs
his thoughts to a uni-
verse of sorrow, eternal
pity.
He reaches in-
to the sack and hands
the old man a sand-
which before getting
on the bus and riding
away.
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