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regarding Homelessness--- Amazing Grace by Allen Ginsberg

Page history last edited by jn 13 years, 7 months ago

 

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace

BY ALLEN GINSBERG

I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place
Where I was lost alone
Folk looked right through me into space
And passed with eyes of stone

 

O homeless hand on many a street
Accept this change from me
A friendly smile or word is sweet
As fearless charity

 

Woe workingman who hears the cry
And cannot spare a dime
Nor look into a homeless eye
Afraid to give the time

 

So rich or poor no gold to talk
A smile on your face
The homeless ones where you may walk
Receive amazing grace


I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place

Where I was lost alone

 

Folk looked right through me into space

 

And passed with eyes of stone

 

- 

 

 

 

Composed at the request of Ed Sanders for his production of The New Amazing
Grace, performed November 20, 1994, at the Poetry Project in St. Mark’s Church
 in-the-Bouwerie
 

 

 

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