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September 19, 2012
Walking Home
Walkn home 9/18/12
On Sutter Street, the homeless gather cardboad and free newspapers as the cold night settles in.
A homeless woman crawls from her cardboard homes and starts harassing me.
She doesn't like that i'm standing here...
If you're so bothered by him then get in your box.
The dudes just standing there.
Theres no battle to be fought here.
She pulls a chain from her pocket and starts threatening to beat me with the chain.
And then starts filming me with a cell phone. Which is soft of a surprise to me. Not that i mind, of course . Im not doing anything.
But you have to wonder how someone whos sleeping in a cardboard box can afford a cell phone bill
Its dark and cold and not many people on the streets
I dont like it when people walk do close behind me n i keep stopping n doubling to get them off my tail
You cant live in Stockton and stay the same person.
Wagering on the homeless takes something away from you
As the tides wash the sands from the beaches
I think about the mesmerizing complexity of thegardens of telegraph hill
So many flowers you could never learn them all.
I think about the parrott man and his cherry headed conures. No one cared about the birds. They fell into this little niche. Birders saw them as an invasive species. A nusiuance. But this drifter tuned them in and studied them.
And through his leens the world discovered them. How whimsical.
I wish there was something i could show the world. Something more than arcane lines of computer code.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on September 19, 2012 at 10:41 PM
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