women all

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women all
along Drumm St
now young and old
girls with their
sleeping dogs
Lee with her
whitened face
like some goddess of
the crematorium
of the Age
she told Mike Z
she used to
teach English
today she writes
in a little journal
at the curb in
the sun
— By Sarah Menefee

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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.

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