The City Within The City (The Unhoused, The Homeless, The Disenfranchised)
Homelessness ...is an endlessly idling engine just outside your cozy bed. A human fabric-ball on uncaring sidewalks. Blanket walkers punching telephone poles. The visible invisible I pass without care... 2021 @ rainwriter jones It's everywhere. Sidewalks, empty lots, city parks, cars, motor homes, and vacant buildings/houses have become the new domiciles for drug addicts, the mentally ill, and those who have been displaced from housing. On our daily travels, we see some standing on corners with makeshift signs asking for any amount of money. We see them crawling out of sleeping bags in door jambs. We see them pushing shopping carts filled with what we construe as garbage (their personal belongings). Where did all these people come from? I'm clueless! I've heard stories wherein other jurisdictions will buy one-way bus tickets to rid themselves of these types. My focus is on Tacoma, Washington. The encampments contin...