Homeless Man

This is what life has become because I used drugs. No running water or electricity I'm living in a box you see. Scared at night to rest my head I sleep with one eye open. Smoking butts from off the ground, standing on the corner, waiting for a hand out. People judge and criticize me because I live on the streets. My clothes are dirty with holes and you can see my toes. Huddled around a burning can This is the life of a homeless man. between twenty and thirty percent of homeless families surveyed in 1996 said they had gone without food for part of the previous month (Burt, Aron, and Lee*) 1.5 MILLION = the number of children in America who go to sleep without a home each year ( coalition for the homeless)