
Ordinary Times (Poetic Prose)
Ordinary Times (poetic Prose)
(In three parts: "Ordinary Times")
Prelude
Whenever I've traveled - since the age of nineteen years old - I've stepped down into the so called under - world,
with more of a mind of an explorer,
yet at times I've got caught in this motley world, in which has made me thankful of my youth, and strength,
to escape it, lest I become buried in it...
It has of course, humbled me in spirit to have witnessed and lived this passage of life -
Having a distorted life indeed, has made me, thankful.
In Seattle per near starving to death,
nearly robbed, and rain drenched, yet finding work because of my youth and strength -
In San Francisco, I eaten at the Mission House, slept on porches.
In St. Paul,
I slept in my car three months, once...