Stay with the caravan
By Claire J. Baker on A poem by longtime Street Spirit contributor, Claire Baker.
street poetry
Hoovertown
By Loyd Skiles on Dogs all bark’n from the yardhometown donut’s tweak’n hardthey sure don’t need him aroundit’s hella mean in Hoovertown.Poverty and miseryrepublicans
One of many
By Douglas Levon Dawkins on "One of Many," a poem by incarcerated writer Douglas Levon Dawkins.
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By Ayat Jalal on Coffins are not carpetedThere not for standingLinoleum is uselessAs the imagined dreams,some believe they’ll be havingThe padding is for comfortto
Which Road Do We Take
In two weeks/ the amount the world spends/ on weapons to kill/ every man woman and child/ in just two short weeks/ that money would feed/ every soul upon the earth/ no one would ever be/ hungry or in need again/ just two short weeks folks
Unwanted and Under Attack in Their Own Country
Re-fancying our neighborhoods,/ we liquidate the poor./ They are not an asset to refinance for./ We cannot see the living assets/ beyond our “perfect garbage cans”/ collecting waste of the lifeless lives we lead,/ full of all the things we think we need.
Corporate Misconduct: Dangerous to All Living Things
Drug companies market their super-profitable, addictive and dangerous psych-meds to children. One of the most heinous crimes of the 21st Century will be the massive over-medication of children. Physicians' willingness to uncritically follow pharmaceutical companies' profit-driven recommendations to prescribe dangerous drugs to children will one day be recognized as criminal negligence.
Strong and Unbound Wings
We think of you/ long on the streets/ a titanium brace in your bad leg,/ sighing at pain, yet uncomplaining/ like a statue of marble or bronze./ One day, Mike, may you glide/ from your sidewalk perch/ as if you were always a bird,/ and now at last your wings/ are strong, unbound.