“Have you got any change?”

                And I walk on by
                no eye contact, no
                acknowledgement.

     I look ahead,
     I look down,

we share the same sidewalk.
It is all we have in common.

            Afterthoughts of judgment,
                        mostly about myself,

   I am not the only one
             living in this hell.

04/18/2023                                                                                                           j.g.l.

04/18/2023 j.g.l.