As I’ve been wandering
I’ve thought about this a lot.
With the recent court ruling in Victoria,
that this society can’t make every place illegal to sleep in unless they have true homes for the homeless, we have to give all humans a place
6′ wide by 10′ long, enough for them and their stuff
the minimum space that a human can claim
as their right
their right to survive.
I was thinking about this before as a joke
but not really a joke
parking lots for shopping carts
Ministry supplied shopping carts
Homeless?
ha ha
here’s a shopping cart and a tent and a tarp for you
The carts, tarps and tents could be a special color
maybe a red cross type symbol on them
the minimum
that a human can claim
is my right
to exist.
EVERY park,
even the rich people’s parks
in the corner no one uses much
every park has such a corner
an actual cement shelter
with a windbreak and a cement roof
fireproof
A sign saying
you may sleep here
from 10 pm to 7 pm
after 7 you must move
a garbage can beside it
because most homeless people
honestly
that I’ve seen
will use a garbage can if they don’t have to walk 500 feet to get to it.
Then we can put back the covers over the picnic tables
the ones where old people used to sit,
even on rainy days, enjoying the park
Then we can put back the benches
the benches that have all been moved
from where they were under trees
Benches that have disappeared silently in the subtle plans of social cleansing
Benches that old people weep for
the ones they used to love to sit on
under the shade
Our parks are empty in the rain now
aren’t they so much better?
without all the PEOPLE that used to use them?
In our haste to cleanse our sight
from the shit we’ve allowed to silently accrue
we’ve torn away the basic concept
of why humans have parks in the first place
We can’t relocate them to work camps miles from their home communities
We can’t beat and kill them in the night
we can’t wash them away, discard them
They have a basic right
to exist
to live
being HUMAN
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