<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548735" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cold Driving Rain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s raining.<br>Cold driving rain.<br>Commuters rushing home from work<br>Home to hubby, wife and family<br>Spot and Cleo<br>And a fire on the stove.<br>Another day of brutal business<br>Accounts are squared<br>And errands run<br>No more phone calls<br>No more hassles<br>Watch some boob tube<br>Think of sex<br>Spare some change, sir<br>Spare some change, ma’am<br>I haven’t eaten for three days<br>You haven’t washed for three days either<br>Get a job, you dirty bum<br>I wonder how my stocks are doing<br>Shelter some money in a tax-free fund<br>Spare some change, sir<br>Spare some change, ma’am<br>Walk past quickly and ignore him<br>He just wants a shot of booze<br>Please sir<br>Spare some change, sir<br>And the rain keeps pouring down...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All is quiet on the street now<br>Two a.m. of a Tuesday night<br>All is quiet, all is peaceful<br>Save for the drizzling of the rain<br>Gently tapping<br>The lifeless body<br>Huddled on the pavement<br>Spare some change.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Previously published in Rinse & Repeat, Scars Publications,1999; The Poet's Porch, Nov.2000, Poetry Soul to Soul, Apr.2002; World's Strand Anthology,2008)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Laurence+Overmire">Laurence Overmire</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548735" data-title="Cold Driving Rain de Laurence Overmire" data-description="It’s raining. Cold driving rain. Commuters rushing home from work Home to hubby, wife and family Spot and Cleo And a fire on the stove. Another day of brutal business Accounts are squared And errands run No more phone calls No more hassles Watch..."></div> </div> </div>

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