Ordinary People
By Jeannette DesBoine on We are changing our names— / From ‘poor’ people to ‘ordinary’ people
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Street Spirit horoscopes: October 2024
By Boudia Crow Lafleur on 'Look at the bigger picture and see the world is evolving...Be there for others in need. There is a way for ourselves to be liberated from the numbness of colonization.'
Loving Oakland is a Plywood Maw
By Cassandra Dallett on Loving Oakland / is a series of tripping / with no luggage / Of baggage without a place / to put it down.
a numbers game
By Jaz Colibri on "Between shelters and sweeps
that recycle us on, off,
and back on these streets,
in a fiscal year reap
around:
$35,000,000
that us poor people never see
Rooms
By Olivia Rudd on "The history the structure elicits of some multidimensional space
Am I remembering some capsule?"
Street Spirit horoscopes: August 2024
By Boudia Crow Lafleur on Horoscopes for the month of August, divined just for us.
~*~Happy Leo Season~*~
Recovery
By Joshua Merchant on "east Oakland is dilapidated
'Angel Grove City.' all our power-
rangers became crack heads
or died."
Windy Midnight Linen
By Taneesh Kaur on "The wind takes me in waves
down sidewalks of the living
rooms into windows of lives we see
streetside survival in the eyes of hungry love."
Under the Freeway Doe
By Kim Shuck on "Tent collects
Moisture from her breath
Wind rains it back she
Pulls the gift blanket
Over her head and
Waits for dusk"
Street Spirit horoscopes: July 2024
By Boudia Crow Lafleur on Boudia Crow Lafleur divines a new set of horoscopes for July, 2024.