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Thoughts From a Homeless Man, Simeon, Ranger of the Sky

when the booze gets to me and nobody will care, because of my beard or stink or hair, I curl up under the cardboard and fly away, to a place high up in the air my brown hands part the partial, tipsy clouds, hanging together like freshly laundered shrouds, or like cops in a bar in a good part of town I just fly man; fly in my titanium, uranium, cranium suit, all cherry blossom soft linen, cute: but I don’t know if I can keep it up, this cerebral act, this fornication, supplication, altercation with the brew; I really just don’t know; it’s kind of simple like a dimple, or maybe a stubborn pimple, that’s never, going away; see, I really just don’t know the time of day, or what to say, or which crazy, hazy, game to play and folks around just curse at me; they only see the walking wreck, the speck, what the heck, not the man who used to be a father, brother, son and lover; no its all changed now, not for the better, never get a meal with fetter; it’s crisps or pizza, scraps or pie, sometimes they just spit in my eye; yes I know it’s a severe admission, faulty cognition, its spiral crashing aircraft position; but it’s like that here, where I’m at, in the medication, obfuscation, strangulation cardboard city stay So next time you see me and you look away all sly, unwilling to look me, straight in the eye, remember, remember, with your embarrassing sigh; your’e looking at Simeon, Ranger of the Sky

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Date: 3/5/2015 8:13:00 PM
It only takes a.couple of bad decisions to end up this situation or the lose of few pay checks I came very close to ending up on the streets on a few occasions it dosen't take much only a run of bad luck Excellent write you nailed it,
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Date: 3/4/2015 5:51:00 AM
Well thought out and superb. Thought provoking. Hopefully, with literature such as this, homeless people will receive more humane treatment.
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