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Array ( [sid] => 184725 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Skid Row [time] => 2017-12-19 10:04:42 [hometext] => [bodytext] => Let me take you on a journey
far from your comfortable armchair
and cozy fire
to a place that many don/'/t know about
at least i didn/'/t
until i saw it myself

A place where the streets are littered with
trash and human feces
and tents line the sidewalks
A place where the insane defecate in public
and drug dealers swarm like locusts
devouring all hope of green life
A place where the homeless are outnumbered
only by the rats that feed on their waste
A place known, in downtown Los Angeles
as Skid Row

Imagine if one of these tents were your own
and you went to sleep every night
to the sounds of

Stomping

Screaming

Gunshots

Screaming

Sirens

Screaming

Drugs and violence a part of your
everyday atmosphere
an everyday reality for countless people

And in the midst of this violence
and chaos
are many men and women braving
the urban third world
armed with nothing more than
bibles and sack lunches
hoping only that their small effort
will make a difference
to somebody

And as i see this
I think of what it truly means
to be a hero [comments] => 0 [counter] => 51 [topic] => 43 [informant] => nightwolf [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )

Skid Row

Contributed by nightwolf on Tuesday, 19th December 2017 @ 10:04:42 AM in AEST
Topic: oops

Let me take you on a journey
far from your comfortable armchair
and cozy fire
to a place that many don/'/t know about
at least i didn/'/t
until i saw it myself

A place where the streets are littered with
trash and human feces
and tents line the sidewalks
A place where the insane defecate in public
and drug dealers swarm like locusts
devouring all hope of green life
A place where the homeless are outnumbered
only by the rats that feed on their waste
A place known, in downtown Los Angeles
as Skid Row

Imagine if one of these tents were your own
and you went to sleep every night
to the sounds of

Stomping

Screaming

Gunshots

Screaming

Sirens

Screaming

Drugs and violence a part of your
everyday atmosphere
an everyday reality for countless people

And in the midst of this violence
and chaos
are many men and women braving
the urban third world
armed with nothing more than
bibles and sack lunches
hoping only that their small effort
will make a difference
to somebody

And as i see this
I think of what it truly means
to be a hero

Copyright © nightwolf ... [ 2017-12-19 10:04:42]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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