do you remember when
they called a blanket
and a piece of cardboard
a structure?
according to the law
all night we lay there
without a single structure
arms around each other
— Sarah Menefee
San Francisco poet Sarah Menefee is a long-time homeless rights activist. She is the Homeless Desk on the People’s Tribune Editorial Board. She is a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and 'First they came for the homeless'. Her latest collections of poetry are Human Star and CEMENT.
