I dreamed my young homeless friends
were squatting a FEMA camp
making it no longer a prison
but a decent place to live
sharing their food and dreams
as they do in the alleys and streets
humanizing this mean land
a young soldier outside its walls
looked longingly in
at this future built in hell
by our new arising ones
— 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. 'Her latest books of poetry are Holy Eel, There You Are and Winter Rose.
