by Gary Beck
When I was young
I was homeless
and learned the bitter lesson
of alienation, deprivation.
I remember winters
when my coat wasn’t heavy enough
to keep out the cold.
But all the time in school
I heard noble words
that everyone believed,
but didn’t apply to me.
Conditions changed for me
so I was never disadvantaged
in the land of the free
that I painfully discovered
was only for some of us.
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