Central Park Poet

I'm a poet

I'm not a bad man

They let me out every Tuesday

Where you from? California?

Everybody's got to come from somewhere

That's a poem

I got three poems here

A dollar a poem

So that's three dollars

But you can give me five if you want to

Can you help out a brother?

Where you from? California?

Everybody's got to come from somewhere

Next time, then

That's okay

You're still okay in my book, Pops

[fist bump]

—Alisa Golden