A Monk on the Street
The line forms here men, women, old and young wait
forgotten all except by The Monk on the Street
A bowl of soup a handshake, contact …
Ruth Jewell's poem pictures a queue of people waiting for help from a figure called "The Monk on the Street." The line includes "men, women, old and young," so hunger or need clearly isn't limited to one kind of person.
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