Dedication for a Building

The excavation for the new

clinic of Bellevue Hospital

was littered with knocked bricks,

corrupt plaster, and old ward-

flowers thrown to the blasting-dust.

A cat grinned with the effort

as it chewed a piece of meat

fastened to a Kraft-paper bag

while some man slept off something.

Hell, may the clinic rise to cure

all ills its site is host to,

and not mis-treat the desperate.