Travel with Strangers volume II | Page 5

A Saint among the Damned

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by Philip Sterwerf

The man I met at the Greyhound station

Is a saint among the damned.

He blesses everyone’s trip

With his golden-toothed smile

And wrinkled Sunday suit. He makes

A pilgrimage to the

Bathroom

And leaves

A cigarette in each stall.

photo by Carolyn Lusch