Homeless on the Corner of West Division Street Saint Cloud Minnesota

Her sign read "Homeless
                                            Anything will help
                                           God bless"
And she watched as I left the Caribou Coffee
Two turquoise cups in my hands
Shifting one cup to the other hand
To open my car door
Where I placed them in the holders
Buckled the seat-belt
                                                   And drove away
Into the poverty of my own life
Unable to tell her
Those coffees were a gift
From a brother-in-law
To myself and his sister