hail hobo ego!

Just now, I was thinking  The beggar is
 gonna twist his head  
at the sound of 
that change 
fell there on the subway floor,
but he does not. 
Happened
10 seconds removed 
from his loud entrance and be-speech-ment.
Was midway thru 
the one-armed wheelchair push
thru the car! 
One guy gave a dollar  before a coiny thud fell 
somewhere back this way.
He did not look. Did he hear?
How many of us heard the clink jingling and looked at him? And 
how many of us smiled at his half-second of indecision,
then looked down at our twiddling thumbs? 

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