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Continuing in the same vein as the previous blog, I now am building off the first prose and refining my thought regarding the street people and what might be going through the thought process. Again rough ideas put down as rough poetry....

Rows of houses made of yesterday items
Not the house you thought to expect
Shelters of paper, a floor of rags
Neighbors of crack whores, dealers and living dead
Some choose this life, other unwilling

No worries of investments, no concern of the markets
Only thought today is will you make it to tomorrow
No sending back not perfect meals, no selection of wines
A half eaten sandwich makes a over stuffed meal
Some choose this life others unwilling

Community events, gathering of neighbors
Tent city neighborhoods, Christian charities outreach
A unlikely brotherhood rises a street wise phoenix
Consort, create and befriend
Some choose this life others unwilling


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