WHO IS SALLY ANYWAY?

I woke up this morning thinking about my friend, my homeless friend S...y, who now lives in the backyard of THE HOUSE. I looked out the back window up into the trees to see if she was up there, she was. She was sitting on her platform smoking an herb, I always thought she was smoking a cig, until she told me she did not do tobacco. She also told me that she had been a vegetarian since her teenage years but became an animal eater when she went back to being homeless. I found that to be very strange since I thought acquiring animals to eat would be difficult if one is homeless. She assured me that was not so. She said that a lot of people when they were being "generous,compassionate or kind" would bring her animal based food. She also said at first she would refuse it and they would become so angry and mean toward that she decided to stop refusing and gradually began to eat it, she said at first she did become very ill from eating it but her body finally got adjusted to the poison, she said the thing that really came home to her is how much our bodies will adapt and adjust to almost any thing. She called that the beauty of life, not just human life but life. She said as she live homeless for a longer period of time she learned how to take the animal meals she was given and exchange them for other things that she needed with other homeless. I asked how was she able to make money, she said money was not the most important thing when one is homeless, because many gave money to really appease their conscience, and money was easy to get. She also said getting work was really not that easy, because the temp jobs were usually in exchange for something, and were menial almost all the time, not only that most folks did not want the homeless ones around for long because they felt they would be eventually ripped off. She added that this attitude was always a strange one to her, cause after all who is really getting ripped off? I was curious about something, i remembered that one time I had gone to see her under the overpass, and she was giving a cig to another homeless womon. I asked her if you don't smoke cigs, why were you giving one to that womon that time? Her response, I make it my business to garner a pack of cigs, I use them as trade offs. Do you smoke cigs she asked, no my answer, o she said because I have a brand new pack, I am still in the habit of using them as trade offs, they have become very expensive. I asked her if she thought smoking cigs was a healthy habit. Her response I don't smoke them. So what is there to say about that? I had to ask myself again really who is this womon?