Wednesday nights
in the gingko-lined parking lot
behind the main library
a father and daughter feed the homeless
gathered below the M. L. King overpass.

As we hurry through the alley
to the Kentucky Theatre,
we give a woman the dollar
she claims she will spend for the bus.

Inside, to organ accompaniment
700 moviegoers sing
“By’n by hard times comes a knocking at the door”
before the start of Funny Face.