A Bed for the Night

I'd been looking for this poem for some time, and finally found it this evening.

  A BED FOR THE NIGHT

  I hear that in New York
  At the corner of 26th Street and Broadway
  A man stands every evening during the winter months
  And gets beds for the homeless there
  By appealing to passers-by.

  It won't change the world
  It won't improve relations among men
  It will not shorten the age of explotation
  But a few men have a bed for the night
  For a night the wind is kept from them
  The snow meant for them falls on the roadway.

  Don`t put down the book on reading this, man.

  A few people have a bed for the night
  For a night the wind is kept from them
  The snow meant for them falls on the roadway
  But it won't change the world
  It won't improve relations among men
  It will not shorten the age of exploitation.      

  - Bertold Brecht