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The Flautist of North Station
The flautist of North Station,
playing Amazing Grace,
will get, for compensation,
some quarters in a case
on which, for sympathy,
he's taped a picture of
his daughters, so that we
may see he plays for love;
may see he plays for free,
while someone in a suit
takes up the melody
our man plays on the flute
and starts to whistle it
as he departs the station,
bound for a world unfit
for any such salvation.
Bill Coyle
(c) 1995 by Bill Coyle; first
printed in
The Formalist; used by
permission of
the author.
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