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Dec 2019
Such elegance and opulence
Beneath this highway overpass,
Where rocks provide the sustenance,
As winter culls the underclass;
Gimcrackery of transients,
Guitars and spoons and mattresses.
Police come charged with striking tents.
You can't live here, the city says.
One level up, on 2nd Street,
Old cars and vans make living space
For down-and-outs who still compete,
And teach their kids to ask God's grace.
This kingdom come, of what's been done--
Earth daughter, mother, father, son.
Bobby Copeland
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Bobby Copeland  65/M/Kentucky
(65/M/Kentucky)   
80
     ---, vb, Scarlet McCall, --- and Wk kortas
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