The handwritten card reads,

'Help Me
suffering from Hepatitis C'

which to me is a cry
from the heart,

but he's just one of many
in the city,
doesn't anybody care?

the card could of course be a lie
and the man sitting there
could be
as healthy as you or as I

wonder why he wrote it?

while
I think inoculation,
half of the population have
never heard of hepatitis

the liver might as
well be something to eat
not a disease for someone to beat

I admire him however grim it may be
to sit and bare your medical history
begging for charity
it's certainly something you
don't see
every day.