my friends were
enjoying some ramen
though it could have been spicier
I told them l saw a man
squatting at the Drumm St curb
in a neat dark navy suit
eating some dry ramen noodles
opening the little flavor packets
to sprinkle over them
on the table of his parked suitcase
as he chanted something that
didn’t sound quite Chinese
who knows from what steppes
in his very neat dark suit
he came to eat dry ramen with
such lugubrious delight
— 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.
