I have stepped in about everything, one time or another,
Bubble gum, Cow and pig waste, dead critters remains
in the woods, the putrid upchuck of someone's late night
over celebrating. Mostly you name it I have trod in it.
Today on a shoping spree, in the outdoor alcove entrance
of an upscale store in the city center, it was a pile, or two
of ill smelling human excrement, an experience that is
guaranteed to take the wind right out of your sails.

The warning should have been a line of small camping
tents out on the sidewalk belonging to the "dispossessed"
"Un Housed" as they are being referred to lately. The sad
shadowy street people, the dropouts and drug addicted
given up on life, as most of us know it. Living in filthy
unsanitary conditions we pretend not to see, dwelling in
a miserable existence we would not allow our loved dogs
or cats to endure. The lost, throw away human beings all
around us unwashed, ignored and overlooked.

Where has our collective humanity gone, where are we as a
nation headed? Is the world we thought we knew falling apart?
This is a basic humanitarian issue that all of us should step into.