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One of many people without homes sleeping on the cold Atlanta streets. When the photographer John E. Ramspott was asked what he learned in interviewing homeless people about solving homelessness, he said, “I have seen where some cities find small apartments for people and they do better.”
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

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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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