Encounter Part I

Night time again after a twelve-hour shift Making my way down the road riding fast I’m homeward bound Suddenly I brake to stop At the sight of a bearded man with a fez He was smilingly offering to push me wherever it is that I was going He introduced himself as Adam The man who sleeps in a pipe on Loerie Road He was rather very angry telling about the city council, who wants to remove him and his home from the Nantes Park The City Council wants to renovate Ah! I thought of the developmental scenario You get evicted from your home There is a new town development to be build Adam seemed enraged at this stage talking about him and his home removal It was not his anger that frightened me It was the fact that he slept outside so long That he adapted animal instincts for survival To protect him and his home to whatever may come alive That he might forget he was helping a wheelchair man