Pink poodle with diamond studded collar <br />Stares out of a window <br />Of a fashionable brownstone <br />At the shivering homeless men <br />Gathered around a corroded barrel <br />Holding up grimy hands <br />To the cracking warmth <br />Of a makeshift fire. <br /> <br />Like the snap of a dropping icicle <br />With insincere alacrity <br />The men and dog <br />Lock unblinking balls of jelly <br />Wondering <br />At the <br />Inhumanity <br />Of it <br />All.<br /><br />Pasquale DiMeola<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jewels-and-ashes/
