selective charity

it's selective

charity,

do i give the large

man

on the corner

a dollar

bill,

he looks fine, he looks

healthy

sitting in his

folding chair

with his

God Bless sign.

or do i wait until

i see a more

bedraggled person,

maybe a woman

or a child

in rags

with no shoes on?

this Catholic guilt is

killing

me,

one corner at a time.