Improv - Camille T. Dungy, "The Preachers Eat Out"

on the ragged road
a squat and tattered man,
hunched and twisted from
too many years of
  nothing
scrabbled up to me on the street
palm clenched wet with metal coins
flashes his raw teeth, saying
  god is dead,
god is dead.

on the corner, a sister of mine
and yours
was bent over one night and
  never
got up again.