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PHOTO/ JOHN E. RAMSPOTT
he has his precious
stash of books
out on the pavement
in the cold night
*
vision from
the bottom up
a free mind reading
in the night
— 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.