Yakov Shatzki

The ballad of a bum

The poor men wander the city streets
laughing and grinning through their rotten gold teeth
and smoking their big cubans filled with the greenest kief
what a life they live
one without the worries of bearing kin
but forever haunted by their past frightful sins
as they hide in the temples of graffiti kings
below sprawling towers of chrome
where the rich hide from the ice cold snow