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rumpled wet cardboard newspaper floats on gusts of wind the smell of smoke burns the nostrils while someone is urinating on the wall small dogs growl as you pass by cold bare feet show from under worn blankets while one hand grasps the wheel of a shopping cart making sure no one takes their life's belongings clean clothes a faded memory as are the faces of loved ones dementia and paranoia settle in as your new best friends "spare a dollar sir, for something to eat?" "i don't think so, you will buy a bottle" "you are right sir, but that bottle keeps me warm" "get a job you freak, and leave me alone" last cardboard box on the back wall strange smell, stranger than usual poke joe with my left toe joe won't be needing that blanket anymore shared bottles, germs abound hey, i used to be a ceo, ya know then all the voices came around and told me i had to end it all hospital told me i couldn't stay had to go home, and then i laughed home....you mean that cardboard box? well while i was in here, someone took it that makes me homeless ya know if you have no box, you have nowhere can't use park benches or you'll be arrested hey, free room and board, sounds good warm cot feels so good to my aching back peanut butter and jelly sammich filled the belly but **** didn't know i had to watch my back someone made me his ***** when i wasn't looking nowhere is not the place to be ©Regina2009
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 4:07 AM UTC
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rumpled wet cardboard newspaper floats on gusts of wind the smell of smoke burns the nostrils while someone is urinating on the wall small dogs growl as you pass by cold bare feet show from under worn blankets while one hand grasps the wheel of a shopping cart making sure no one takes their life's belongings clean clothes a faded memory as are the faces of loved ones dementia and paranoia settle in as your new best friends "spare a dollar sir, for something to eat?" "i don't think so, you will buy a bottle" "you are right sir, but that bottle keeps me warm" "get a job you freak, and leave me alone" last cardboard box on the back wall strange smell, stranger than usual poke joe with my left toe joe won't be needing that blanket anymore shared bottles, germs abound hey, i used to be a ceo, ya know then all the voices came around and told me i had to end it all hospital told me i couldn't stay had to go home, and then i laughed home....you mean that cardboard box? well while i was in here, someone took it that makes me homeless ya know if you have no box, you have nowhere can't use park benches or you'll be arrested hey, free room and board, sounds good warm cot feels so good to my aching back peanut butter and jelly sammich filled the belly but **** didn't know i had to watch my back someone made me his ***** when i wasn't looking nowhere is not the place to be ©Regina2009
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 4:07 AM UTC
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