Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

4/22/16 - 11:46 a.m.

old man picking trash
from the roadside
plastic bag in one hand
pokestick in the other
pokestick also serves old man
as balance cane for
traversing the steep banks
old man walks slow but
fills his bag many times

slice of life...love it and the wonder within

downtown portland
canning is a sport
and surrvival-
college kid drinks soda
throws it away
man comes and takes all the cans to safeway
everyday is earth day he say

Thx, Wireman

creativesoul wrote:downtown portland
canning is a sport
and surrvival-
college kid drinks soda
throws it away
man comes and takes all the cans to safeway
everyday is earth day he say

same here Jana, canners here got territories and they will war on anyone thinks they can just come & pick cans -

It's real... The trade is vast---- I see one man with a bag of cans-
And then two plump and perfect jogging around him
What is wrong with this picture?
He's so used to being ignored
He talks to himself on the trolley
I gave him a soul smile
He smiled back
We both knew
That things are out of whack

there is an underground economy here in B'mo as well....saw a lot of shit when I was rehabbing houses...got a solid education about the street....and I mean to tell you I never saw so much creativity....when you are talking about survival, one can get pretty damn inventive....and I met some extraordinary folks in ghettos.....white and black...real characters...from an alternative planet most people don't know about...I'll see if I can dig up my poem. Plato Barnes
and post it....have a lot of poetry about poverty stricken life.....

creativesoul wrote:It's real... The trade is vast---- I see one man with a bag of cans-
And then two plump and perfect jogging around him
What is wrong with this picture?
He's so used to being ignored
He talks to himself on the trolley
I gave him a soul smile
He smiled back
We both knew
That things are out of whack

Ain't that the truth! We get by though just by being here - Thx, Jana

saw wrote:there is an underground economy here in B'mo as well....saw a lot of shit when I was rehabbing houses...got a solid education about the street....and I mean to tell you I never saw so much creativity....when you are talking about survival, one can get pretty damn inventive....and I met some extraordinary folks in ghettos.....white and black...real characters...from an alternative planet most people don't know about...I'll see if I can dig up my poem. Plato Barnes
and post it....have a lot of poetry about poverty stricken life.....

It's like that here too though spread over a much wider geographical area - been like that ever since folks settled here - hope you find that poem - Plato Barnes lives everywhere