Blessed be the lettuce pickers
     the wards and waifs
     the overweight and underfed
     the unnamed
     the average
     the slandered

Blessed be the misunderstood
     the latch-key kids
     the shy
     the shunned, the uncool
     the stone-cold sober
     the street sweepers

Blessed be the night shift
     the unfriended
     those who try
     the drivers and delivery boys
     the widows
     the utterly forgiving

Blessed be the utterly forgiven
     the bussers
     the barren
     the gunned down
     the onlys and the singles
     those who try again

Blessed be the addicts
     the true believers
     the doubters
     the kind
     the blue-sky dreamers
     the down-and-outers

Blessed be the last leaf on the tree
     the parched and hollow
     the seed sowers
     the ardent seekers
     those in second place
     the commuters on the city bus

Blessed be the here and now
Blessed be the there and then
Your kingdom come, O Lord. When?

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