2 posts tagged “homeless”
I just went down to the basement to get a diet coke...and I am used to the homeless that hang there, but today I felt like crying. One guy...young, Hispanic, in bib snowpants, asleep, his hands folded, his face in repose, his head resting against the wall just tore me up. Oh crap...now I am crying. My heart is all wonky and breaky today.
It just seems like we are all far away from home sometimes.
Hey you guys! I just worked up my courage and found the cafeteria here at the capitol. This place is like a gorgeous yet palatial maze, and I have been lost every single day since arriving. So I was jonesing for a diet coke (real bad) and I ventured out to find the vending machines. Joel (my new boss) warned me that the caf is a place where the homeless hang out. It is in the basement of the capitol, which is anything but basementy -- think more marble, gold, scroll work, pillars. One guy was down there rolling cigarettes. Two bedraggled women were trying to dry out from the downpour outside. One particularly grubby (and I'm assuming he was the one smelling the joint up) guy was asleep or passed out on a couple of chairs he had pulled together...DAYUM, Joel was not kidding. As a side note, my ex is homeless and as I walked through there I couldn't help but wonder what their stories were. My ex is the last person you would ever expect to become indigent...Mr. $200 Silk Tie, if you get my drift.
Rant: Am listening to a local radio station that just plugged and played a "new" song from Sarah McLaughlin called River. HELLO! It is not new. It is a cover of a Joanie Mitchell song. HELLO! SMc is not fit to carry Joan's guitar case. I am all alone again and no one to tell.
