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I’m lying on the grate where the steam comes up.

Fritz Hamilton

I’m lying on the grate where the steam comes up.
Otherwise I’d freeze a Chicago winter night.
Occupy Wall St, what a bust!

Then all day I sit in Union Stn like waiting for a train,
moving around so they won’t get suspicious.
I’m lying on the grate where the steam comes up.

Sometimes I’m sitting in the library with a book
or in the Pacific Gardens Mission getting saved & fed.
Occupy Wall St, what a bust!

On Thursdays the Art Institute is free.
I walk around looking at Kandinsky & Klee
I’m lying on the grate where the steam comes up,

spending a Chicago winter night behind the Post Office.
When they open their doors, I’m at the mission getting saved.
Occupy Wall St, what a bust!

Soon it’s Spring, & you can get rained on before
you pull a tarp over yourself at the grate.
I’m lying on the grate where the steam comes up.
Occupy Wall St, what a bust ...

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