“Have you ever held a pigeon before?” “No,” I said, and before I could tell him I didn’t want to hold a pigeon, he grabbed the one next to me with sure hands. “Now hold it firmly like this,” he instructed me. For a brief moment, I held the bird and felt its rapid heartbeat inside my hands. The bird didn’t seem to mind the experience nearly as much as […]
Chiquita Mullins Lee | Model behavior
She could have been a model. Tall, brown, and slender. Textured hair pulled back from her chiseled nose and cheekbones. She’d be sitting there most days at the edge of the Rhodes Tower on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio. A ledge there is just the right height for a hard seat. There she’d be most days, in a neat dark blue dress. No request, just waiting. We’d catch each […]
Mary C McCarthy | Poems for the homeless
From Bedlam to the State Pen Here there is no asylum Shuttered and empty The worst and best of them Forgotten, erased Abandoned All the unlisted Inhabitants released Expelled, scattered Into the streets Invisible, caught Like sand in drifts Under the bridges And overpasses Passed over, voiceless Faceless, nameless Caught like fish In the nets of factory ships And stowed deep Hidden in prisons Placed, replaced Invisible– No room here […]
Timothy O’Leary | Homeless Gary Busey
Ian Davis was an orderly man. His closets, length and style-organized on color-coded hangers with pleasing symmetry. His refrigerator was stocked with food logically structured by height and food type, anything with pending expiration dates moved to the front. His workday uniform rotated between identical Banana Republic chinos and blue denim shirts. Monday through Friday at 7:15 a.m., he commenced the twenty-minute walk to work, first filling his NPR mug, […]
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