KID (CUERNAVACA) by Robert Hayden

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He is found with the homeless dogs
  that worry sidewalk cafes
where gringos in dollar bills
  deplore and sip. He has

Tricks of pathos for
  the silly foreigners
and so manages not to starve.
  Waiters strike at him and curse;

Deft and quick and accustomed,
  he dances beyond their blows,
taunts them and scampers off,
  laughing as he goes.