::: Homeless Camp Near the Lamborghini Dealership :::

A man is sleeping on the street
Cocooned in a gray bag
Surrounded by a fortress
Of two shopping carts
And a blue plastic box
Most prominent jutting
From the carts is a TV set
With a broken screen
Rabbit ears intact
Ten yards down the street
The quiet opulence of faded
Brown marble the building
A relic of times when buildings
Were made of marble and carved
Lion faces stare proudly
Into the passing traffic
Behind thick windows
The Lamborghini Murcielago
Stands like a low-slung
Space ship in shocking yellow
On a stand the $293,600 price tag
Strikes me as strange
600 extra dollars piled on
$293,000? Isn't that rubbing it in?
For the bargain-minded
The Lamborghini Gallardo in
Sleek metallic silver is only $174,000.
Now that's more like it
I think as I wait for a bus
And a man already drunk at 10:00
In the morning weaves down the street
A New Year's Eve celebration of one
And the man in the fort wakes up
Stares intently at the broken screen
"Nothing on but a bunch of bullsh*t"
He mumbles into the sunlight.

Written by: ~ Michael Shorb

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