Best Lodgings Poems

The rough sleepers 
keeping diaries of
near misses and 
misadventures
staying alone and alive
living on their wits
eschewing assistance 
except 
from the social and
the occasional good
Samaritan. 

Jesus plays his part,
free tea in the park
meals at the mission
seems god is fishing 
for converts,
but 
It's hard to believe 
in a...

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Incineration; it is his living wish.
The urn will be a plain oblong box,
        He will be boxed.

The wooden package will be sent
as only a temporary accommodation,
    not a place of rest or peace,
but something to...

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