street roots
July 8, 2011
Shed Boy
By L.E. Neilson
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I’m living in the attic of an old woodshed
an 8 x 12 cracker-box palace
the size of a large closet
I have an extension cord
From a drug house
like a long orange snake climbing the wall.
.1 have no toilet, I piss in the bushes.
I have no shower, I bathe in the river.
I have a mattress on the floor with a sleeping bag.
I am within walking distance of a library
and the beer shops.
I have rats in the walls
and it’s a Mexican standoff between me
and the ants
Some days, they seem to be winning.
Yesterday I ate tuna fish right out of the can
with pepper
today it will be crackers and peanut butter
and a stolen apple.
I kill two stones with one bird.
Beautiful women come to see me some days
and on the days they don’t, I write poems.
The neighbors think I’m crazy,
wishing I did not exist
I play the Beatles and drink wine
settle into a comfortable poverty,
Another successful American poet.
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Canning jars 8c
equipment,
cookware, kitchen
tools 8c appliances
Can You See Me Now? fort 1)
Reflections on Palestine
Sarah Farahat
COMMUNITY STO
July 16th-August 13th, 2011
Opening Reception: July 16th 6-9pm
Natural Kitchen
& Home
2106 SE Division
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All Events are FREE&OPEN to the Public
(0UO7Ï open at &30pm and amts begm promptly al 7pm)
July 20th
Journalism and New Media
in the Middle East:
Lecture and Discussion with
Stanford Fellow Jenka Soderburg
and Palestinian Journalist
Sacd Bannoura
July 30th
First Hand:
A Night of Storytelling from the
West Bank and Gaza
August 2nd
Slingshot Hip Hop:
A Free Film Screening for Youth
with discussion following
August 3rd
From South Africa to Palestine:
The Shaping of a Movement
through Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions: Portland Activists
discuss their past and present work
August 11th
To the Land of Oz* and
Back Again: a conversation
with the artist
The Settlement @ Pioneer Place Mall (3rd Floor)
700 SW 5th Ave, PDX, OR 97204
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Organic cotton
sheets, towels,
8c blankets
Food dryers
Juicers
Books on meat-free
cooking, gardening
& sustainability