Wednesday, October 10, 2007

HOMELESS FRIENDS AGAIN ?

I have had so many dreams in the past few nights, some of them were fun some were very scary. One in particular i dreamed that my homeless friend was murdered by a group of homeless men, i remembered she told me that she did not hang around the homeless men because they were no different from those who had homes, and that she did not feel safe around them, i wondered how she could avoid them being outdoors. I also dreamed that my homeless friend who had died earlier was really still alive but living somewhere else, i realized that this was a figment of my imagination, cuz myself with some other wimmin had her cremated. I think these dreams are my minds way of telling me to give some more thought about inviting my homeless friend to live in the yard at THE HOUSE, and i think i will visit her and tell her so. So i took a walk to where she lives under the I95 expressway to see if she really wanted to live in the yard at THE HOUSE, the back yard is very large. My walk was relatively calm and simple, nothing spectacular happening on the streets, it is a different walk from THE HOUSE to where she is than it was from my apartment in an unsafe part of town, seem as though there were less bodies out walking and as i would walk past others they did not seem as friendly as the others in my old neighborhood, maybe i just need to walk this more often. When i got to the underpass my friend was sitting there smoking, i didn't know that she smoked and said that to her, she smiled and said i don't smoke tobacco. I sat down and began to talk to her she seem so sad and i mentioned that to her. She said she was sad and it was because she wanted to see her two daughters but they were not open to seeing her unless she stop being homeless at this point i asked her if she would really like to live outside in a tent in the yard at THE HOUSE? She beamed, smile and said i sure would cause i really want to see my daughters, and that they would come to see her if she was living in a house, i reminded her it would be a tent, she reminded me that a tent is a house to her and a lotta others, she asked me if i remembered the THE TENT CITIES, that were established during the civil rights marches? I said do i remember? i most certainly do i lived in one of them during that time. I told her that she could move into the yard on that week-end, i also told her that i had three requests she asked me what they were. First i said i insist that you take a shower when you get to THE HOUSE, i told her i just could not take the odor, she laughed and said no problem my odor is getting next to me, and asked whats the next request, i told her when she live in the yard in a tent there were to be no men there on the land, and that any food preparation on the land had to be vegetarian, to that she said no worry no men, and when i want to eat meat i know where to go it won't be there. Great i said, i asked if she needed help moving her stuff her answer, the only stuff i will carry with me will be what i wear that day, i asked if she had other clothing she said no. I must see if i can get some clothing out of the spare box of stuff that was left by some wimmin. I stood up and told her i was leaving and that i would walk up on Saturday to get her and we could walk back to THE HOUSE or catch a bus, she reminded me that she had no money for the bus i told her not to worry and left.

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