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the pieces who remain

i had

two dollars

in my wallet

i needed one for parking

i gave the other

to a man in the homeless

shanty

on mitchell avenue

the one right on the sidewalk

by the exit ramp

i felt compelled to do something

but

i didnt give him the money

because he asked me for some change

he didn’t

or because he was in a wheel chair

and had been forgotten

it wasn’t that his eyes were the color

blue turns after it has seen hell

and it wasn’t because most of him

had been blown away

i was saying thank you to him with

half my meager fortune because

he couldn’t have been more

than 22 0r 23 years old

and he

was

still

wearing

his

dog

tags

and

army

jacket

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