Translations from the Chinese/He Likes to Give Both Sides of the Matter

by Christopher Morley

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HE LIKES TO GIVE BOTH SIDES
OF THE MATTER

AND as for the newspapers
(Said another)
You forget that they are the last friend
Many a poor devil has.
Go down to Battery Park
And see the chaps lying on the grass.
Newspapers are their blankets,
Their pillows, their sunshades;
Newspapers their Bibles.
After everything else has gone
A poor bum will cling to his newspaper
As his last link with life.