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2386

the supermarket
homeless beg for a restroom
there but for fortune

May 29, 2019 by brucejewett Categories: haikuTags: haiku, homeless, senryu 1 Comment

2116

the red light snares me
he shuffles to my window
panhandler roulette

September 16, 2018September 24, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haikuTags: haiku, homeless, senryu 1 Comment

1912

by the pet clinic
homeless veteran and kids
patients barking loud

May 12, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haikuTags: haiku, homeless, politics, senryu

1732

homeless woman lies
on the sidewalk— passersby
aim their phones at her

February 27, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haikuTags: aging, haiku, homeless, senryu

1519

at a crosswalk light
lugging their backpacks
scaling the glacier

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January 7, 2018January 7, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: Economics, haiku, Homeless, senryuTags: haiku, homeless, senryu

1507

under the causeway
they sleep wrapped in tarps
even this we grudge

January 3, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: Children, Economics, haiku, senryuTags: haiku, homeless, senryu, winter

1146

my pets are indoors
outside in the night
shadows of strays

June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Pets, senryuTags: cats, dogs, haiku, homeless, pets, senryu

945

cold rain, cold night
where do birds sleep
where do homeless go

December 8, 2016December 8, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Homeless, senryuTags: birds, haiku, homeless, senryu, winter 1 Comment

931

he taps his way
to the crosswalk
drags a battered cart

November 21, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, SenryuTags: blind, haiku, homeless, senryu 6 Comments

816

shelterless people
speak on the radio–
when will my luck end?

June 29, 2016June 29, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, senryuTags: haiku, homeless, homelessness, NPR, radio, senryu 4 Comments

695

at an exit ramp
woman and toddler
bright crayon on cardboard

April 11, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, poem, poems, poetryTags: begging, haiku, homeless, senryu

460

new house on the road
hammers and saws all day long
squirrels can’t afford here

六十六

December 15, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Economics, environment, Fall, haiku, Homeless, poem, poems, poetry, Rokuju RokuTags: Bruce Jewett, construction, gentrification, haiku, homeless, house, squirrels

317.3

the rent has risen
jenny wren and her children
vacate the bird house

July 29, 2015August 9, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Birds, Bruce Jewett, Economics, haiku, SenryuTags: birds, haiku, homeless, housing, Jenny Wren, wren 2 Comments

291

disheveled, sleeping
on a curb, grips the bottle
of sweetened cold tea

July 19, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, SenryuTags: addiction, haiku, haiku for cats, homeless, sugar, tea

Down and Out in Gotham

How can anyone be homeless?
You’re a citizen of this country
You’re a resident of this state
Dweller of this city, a neighbour
Now competing with strays
To sit on a bit of sidewalk
And watch the busy on parade.

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September 12, 2013 by brucejewett Categories: Homeless, Political, Social ActivismTags: abandonment, city, community, homeless, neighbour, rights, shelter

Home for the Homeless

San Francisco’s best
To be an unclaimed corpse.
Every six months or so
A chartered excursion boat
Sails off with orphans of ash
Waifs of bone, blind and dumb,
To where gulls and buoys peal
Welcome welcome welcome!

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August 26, 2013September 3, 2013 by brucejewett Categories: Homeless, life, Life-Death, Northern CaliforniaTags: ashes, bay, corpses, cremation, disposal, excursion, homeless, poem, poetry, San Francisco

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