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How people become homeless

No direction

no cigarettes

no money

nowhere to go,

 

stranded.

 

No sleep

I watch the people walk by

I watch the cars

and the rain

 

People go home to their families

people go home

and want to die.

 

Nostalgia.

 

Sunlight pours through the haze

for a moment

and sinks

away

 

I think of you

often

maybe too often

 

You’re ******

just like me

all me do is drown,

drown,

drown.

 

Lust drunk *****

waiting,

waiting to destroy

unintentionally destroy others

then theirselves

 

and weep

for the past.

 

There’s strangers everywhere

watching

questioning my motives…

a man at the table next to me give me the eyes

 

All I want

is a cigarette

one **** smoke.

 

Ah, God, I lost the notion

strangling,

tangling,

growing roots to my sick,

sad,

soul

 

The people I witness

coming into shopping malls

are like rabid animals

 

Wild eyed and gazing

targeting their next material purchase

to try to fit into society

killing off humanity with selfishness,

selflessness

 

Scared children,

holding their mothers hand

growing up to be fools

to fit into this place

 

With eyes like knives,

awaiting your presence

to rip your insides out onto the pavement

and ******* eat you alive.

 

In the car

watching

the leaves thrash the pavement

the breeze is hollow and unforgiving

 

I think, and I don’t want to be here

when the cold front blows in

and releases it’s chaos.

 

I’m so ******

half dead,

like the light in your eyes.

 

This is how people become homeless

This is how people make it big.

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