Applause Please
Street minstrel show parade
Plays on edgy charade
Lunch time crowd pass
Random onlookers like glass
Curious faces venture looks
Money box less empty hooks
Coins like droppings scarce
Spare change welcome nest
Croaks on a song dreary
Mellow strains contort weary
What else can he do or say!
How else can she do today?
Sad story in a brave face
An unlikely hero to trace
But loose change means something
Than something else or nothing
People pass by casually
Somewhat detached emotionally
The world goes on with ripples
Passing by broken people
Today curls and hurls and swirls
These unforgiving times court sad world
Leon Enriquez
19 June 2017
Singapore
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