Cretoid bartering

a flags 

   heartbeat 

    Wrapped in hobo 

  jacket large crudely hand-done

patches

   drinking coffee

on a cold old man 

  day

watching the old man world 

    go to hell in a hand basket

Riding the rails

    Hobo stick with hobo sack

In his head

attached near Iowa City

   detached near San Luis Obispo

with a large jug of 

   Gallo Chianti

half empty

   and a can of sterno

to heat up a can of

beans