Outside the Columbia Physics building
\nwhere the resourceful homeless guy
\nmade a tent of gossamer plastic
\nover the grate’s escaping heat
\nunder the cop’s accommodating eye
\nI found a still-iridescent hummingbird
\ndead on the sidewalk.
\nWas he or she seduced to the Big Apple
\nhopefully looking for a better life
\nor just lost in a bloomless wasteland
\nto starve like all the other homeless?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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