Cuyahoga County's Poet Laureate: Daniel Thompson

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Blessed Are The Homeless
A New Beatitude

by Daniel Thompson

Waking to starlight
In a dark season
I hear a new beatitude, America
Listen
Blessed are the homeless
For they shall inherit the street
The sidewalk, the bushes
The cold, cold ground
Whatever falls from
heaven
Pennies of rain, of snow
Any spare change of
weather
Day-old manna
The donut and the hole
in the donut, the hole in
the sock
in the sole of the shoe
and in the cold, cold
ground
An O I almost forgot, America
This, too, from you
The cold eye of the stanger...