September 10, 2012

  • Visiting Skid Row

    Sharing a train ride with a crazy man

    Shouting and fussing about stuff only  he can understand

    all that fussin' with nothing to show for it but misery...

     

    Is that skid row?

     

    All he had was a battery operated radio

    static filled the air with faint talking 

    his stench grabbed me when I first walked past him

    it didn't offend me once I learned more about it...

     

    Is that skid row?

     


    At home reflecting, wondering if there was something I could have done

    a voice entered my head and said, "There's nothing anyone can do."

    I understood what that voice meant -- once the mind goes, it's all over

    a mind isn't as strong as we think...

     

    Is that skid row?

     

    Did skid row start with a mindset and end with a place?

    Have I been there before? -- because I sure do know crazy

    I'm not talking good crazy

    Drunk, cracked out behind dumpsters, stealing from loved ones, etc!

    Fuck the  people who take their minds for granted

    they are nothing but jokes

    fools granted life by fools who have raised them foolishly

    my mind is my life, I know this, and there's something I can do about me...

     

    I won't visit skid row again!

    Picture source: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Streets-short-trip-on-memory-lane-to-Skid-Row-3242337.php

Comments (6)

  • @RighteousBruin - 

    @PPhilip - Yeah, I think Skid row is present in some areas.

  • Skid row sort of cleaned up:

    1. No sleeping during the daytime means no mattress or flat in front of businesses.
    2. No public drinking.
    3. Active panhandling forbidden.
    4. Bicycle patrols forcing the homeless to move along.
    Yes this is my Los Angeles skid row. Regulating the homeless does have some some exceptions made so that responsible homeless get to be an exception to the rules.
    Let me say if there are too many homeless it becomes unmanageable. The outreach to send some homeless into affordable housing is a sensible approach. If the crazy get sent to homes for the crazy, if the addicts want to recover get treatment and if the abused get unabused that is the proper option.

  • Well done, Carsten.  "The reality of man is his thought."- Abdu'l-Baha

  • @bonmots - Yes, the mind is delicate, I agree. Thank you for reading this and appreciating what I've written. And it's awesome to see you! 

  • and well done, c

    great to see you

  • you're right. the mind can snap and break easily. we often talk about its strength but it is also pretty delicate. needless to say, it's both

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