There's no place like 
"How does it feel to be
HOMELESS ? 
No place to come home to,
No place to have a good night sleep,
No place to call home, your own sweet home. 
How would you survive?
Pushing lifelong belongings in a cart,
Sleeping in cold nights bundled in a jacket in the park,
Wishing everyday for a nice meal and a hot bath. 
A quarter and a buck donation by a few everyday,
Does not bring my self esteem to a cheerful high.
Once I was a happy hard working person,
Now with the lack of work and money. 
I am hopelessly depressed.
People think we all homeless people are drunk
and mentally insane.
Try being homeless for a night, 
you will probably understand,
Trying to cope with this misery makes us insane.
Still we have hope and someday we will come out of it
...me, soon. Got laid off. Single, in my 50s-family deceased. Friends can't help, they're like me, live paycheck to paycheck. Contrary to popular belief that there are organizations which can help, that is a FAIRYTALE!
I know...there are just too many people than these organizations can handle. Although I will say that the Salvation Army has continued to be the best caregivers to the homeless. Religious organizations will offer their prayers and that's about it-hard to eat a prayer. Ironically, my landlords are the Knights of Columbus, allegedly a charitable? organization. Their website is more about business and money than charity and brotherly love. Despite the fact that for years I have been an excellent tenant (always paid my rent on time) - those "good Christian folk" have given me the boot! So much for "Brotherly Love". I was raised Catholic and these clowns ain't nothing like the Knights of Columbus I knew as a kid. Now it's all BIG BUSINESS!
I guess their GOD is $$$!
How much of it actually goes to charity:
“Knights of Columbus, a 125-year-old Catholic fraternal order, is a TAX-EXEMPT INSURANCE MONOLITH WORTH BILLIONS… BOSTON GLOBE raised issues which included exorbitant salaries and perks paid to top executives; the suspension of members who objected to some of the order's policies; and the Knights' lucrative investments in pharmaceutical and insurance companies that promote or condone abortion and birth control, practices the order strongly opposes.”
"CATHOLIC NUNS EVICTED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH"
I mean, c'mon guys, got laid off, on UE while interviewing for a new job, gonna be a bit late with the rent..of course, does it come as any surprise? Naaaah! Greed, hypocrisy and corruption have infiltrated every institution these days, but it is a sad commentary especially for a "charitable? religious?" organization. They sound like big business to me. That being the case, they should be PAYING THEIR TAXES like the rest of us.
To quote William Congreve, it's "THE WAY OF THE WORLD" these days.
COST OF LIVING IN LA 
Homelesss - been there, DONE THAT - many, many years ago with a mentally-ill brother in my care plus 8 dogs, 4 cats and a partridge in a pear tree. Having all my family deceased, I had no one but myself to rely on, but I did rally back and without ANY assistance from the government, churches, charities, etc..which in my experience do very LITTLE helping those with mental illness, drug & alcohol problems, abused women with children, etc.. which wasn't my plight.
THE CALIFORNIA DREAM 
PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK
My plight was/is similar to MANY in this city, this country who are ONE paycheck from the STREET and our numbers are increasing daily. It is a VERY TOUGH ROAD back. I know. Never thought I would go through it again, but Murphy's Law, you know...
That distant memory of the street is best summed up with a few lines from ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Alice and the Caterpillar: Caterpillar: Who are YOU? 
Alice: This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. I -- I hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning?
I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!
Well, enough of that - time to get off my little ol' soapbox. 
"The rich DO win,
the poor are POWERLESS. 
And after a time we become dead...
a little DEAD."
MY SOB STORY 
10/28/07
...and so it begins. 
Down that road again.
Walking a tightrope...
READY-SET-GO!
MICKEY & DONALD 
Seem to be havin' some
landlord problems, too.
HOMELESS FOR THE
PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS
HIS STORY 
Have I 
"Quacked" up? 
Ya' think!?!
Now I need a new place for my
STUFF! 
CAR died,
No $ to fix it.
DAMN! I think I
FIXED IT?
We will PRAY now!
Take it for a
TEST DRIVE
Now for a
OK Steve?!
Although, I am an excellent
it 
10/29/07
Too old for this CRAP!! Been working all my life for WHAT?
Been working hard for the
MONEY!!!
TRUST ME, MARVIN
You don't want to meet my leader,
MORTY THE MORTICIAN,
better suited working around
DEAD people!
(My nickname for my former Boss-CEO) 
DOWN FOR THE 
COUNT!
Gotta get OFF THIS MERRY-GO-AROUND
10/30/07Well, Folks - Gotta go now! 
This blog has been a therapeutic diversion,
but reality check now: 
No job prospects yet, overwhelmed with ovedue bills, no family, no job, no $, car trouble, phone, cable, electric, gas cutoff 11/13, and no place to go... and the answer to your questions - is this true, is this REAL?
YES. 
I am a real human being,
who is just trying to survive
in this
of ours.
It would've been easier if this was a joke,
I guess, especially with all the
nonsense, scams, etc... on the internet.
Ain't no joke, sorry.
All true, this blog has been a diversion
for me - hopefully in a humorous way.
Of course, you might be getting a chuckle out of this -
WHO is this
woman?!?
Fair question - been asking that myself lately.
Yeah, Yeah, I know stop feeling sorry for myself.
No excuse, I am worn out, sorry.
Cable/Internet/utilities/electric/gas
Well, guys, FUCK YOU!
The problemof our age is the proper administration of wealth,
so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together
the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust
which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime
for the good of the community.
