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Homeless

HOMELESS Pale palms spread ! Lie flat, damp on a beer mat lip stained pint glass, bubbles rising,carbon gas. Puddle, pooled, red-eyed perspective, insulin injected. Life lives in a toilet visit, dripped, stained, unzipped. Crabbed-walked, twisted-talked, bent legged kneeling urine smell immune, numb, no feeling. Blurred haze across table strewn, stool, chair maze falling body held in a strangers grasp, a sick rasp. Limp-mouthed words fall out, joined in spit short breath from Hell and split trousers smell . Cold gutters await, dark, alone late and no home, not there ! No care. Please bus fare ?

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