"The Poet" genre: Folk
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	A song about a pan handlers near the Hollywood bowl. There was an article in a magazine I was reading while waiting in a dentist office and from that article came this song.
	CD: At this Point in My LIfe   Label: Devore Records
	Story Behind the Song It has been several years since I wrote this song, but I believe it took several days to write and many hours to record. I was still learning to use my recording equipment, but amazingly it turned out better than I thought. Lyrics The Poet Mark Maysey Verse Down on the corner of Highland and Odin Not far from the Hollywood Bowl I met a man with a sign that poetically rhymed And he wasn’t but forty years old Verse He said you may not know it, but I am a poet And for a token I’ll write you a rhyme He said my pockets are bare, so please show you care And soon he wrote me these lines Chorus Down on Odin Street Everyone’s lonely you meet Though we’re birds of poor feathers We all flock together Down on Odin Street There’s sidewalk preachers and out of work teachers And building with old weathered doors Someone’s grandmother, some guy that calls me brother And Veterans of foreign wars Verse He said he once had a good life, had himself a good wife Limos and first class he’d fly Now it’s cardboard condo’s, old cars with bondo And strangers that quickly walk by Verse Well, I thanked him for his rhymes with nickels and dimes He was grateful and he bowed his head And with nothing more to say, he slowly walked away And turned to another and said Mr. You may not know it, but I am a poet For a token I’ll write you a rhyme He said my pockets are bare, so please show you care And soon he wrote him these lines Repeat Chorus Repeat part of 1st Verse

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