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