Give me a coin
and I will smile for you
dance and love with heavy merriment
and be forever grateful
for your kindness.

Give me a coin
it'll ease the pain of leaving
little drops of me behind
little dreams
a quaint juggling of beliefs
by a skilled fool.

Give me a coin
Ignore that other me -
he knows nothing,  
that Little sickly child,
too full of pipe smoke
and pipe dreams.

These days  
balls fall  
right through his hands