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On the Brink of Insanity:
Interactions Between the
Homeless and the Non-Homeless
by Leo Rhodes
Love, hate, love, hate, love, hate, hate, hate
Every second, minute, hour, day, month, year
Hate, hate, hate, love, hate, love, hate, love
It’s all a ball of confusion
Bending over backwards
Trying to please others
While working on your own problems
Some understand your plight
Others have selective hearing
Claiming to be experts
Causing a stigma
Still others just look at you
And
Judge you on appearance
Most people don’t look, or even speak to you
Making you feel ostracized
One homeless person screws up
All homeless people have to pay
Three steps forward, 18 steps backwards
Street Roots • Nov 4-10, 2016
Poetry
Untitled (Freedom)
by Deadpool
Sitting outside listening to the rain
drop, hearing train blow its horn
thinking how grateful I am to
have been bom
Cold though I am, I am warm ‘cause my
brother, my family is by my side not just
here now but he always has my back
I am grateful to be free to smell the rain
feel its coldness on my head and to have a slab
of concrete as my bed if only for
the night
This feels so right to be out on the street
boots on my feet so as not to freeze my toes
So life goes
I would stay here always but alas I
obey and go where I am told but yet one day I
will be free to make the street my home
with the sky as my roof concrete as my bed and
a cardboard box on which to lay my head
This is what freedom means
to me
Do you know our stories?
Hate, hate, hate, love, hate, love, hate, love
It’s all a ball of confusion
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Union Gospel Mission
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