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the authorities keep

following him

around town

searching for him

They’ve been playing this

game for a time longer

than they care to remember

Thus

another urban legend

was born

The beggar poet

Not much difference between

a beggar and a poet

anyhow

but this one

angered the blue uniforms

of the town

by leaving his poems

behind

carved in the wood of

park benches

and brick walls

and in the hearts of

the week

the needy and the

indignant

Oh, he has to

be stopped