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weirdelf
weirdelf
Oct 28, 2007 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

I am NEVER broken, just get knocked around a bit

Got all excited about turning fifty

Not many substance abusers make it.

Then both flatmates moved out

to be with boyfriends

Homeless again.

Got used to liiving with rats

but feel I deserve better.

I have tried.

And succeeded.

Back on the steet.

I hate whingers.

But am whinging.

You all know I am an athiest

But right now I pray.

 

 

 

— weirdelf, Oct 28, 2007

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Region, Country: Sydney, Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: The Romantics, The Mersey Sound, The Beats and, of course, The Bard

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dbrock

18 years 7 months ago

Broken

Jess...honest read & it's brutally horrible what you are going through! I once had someone say, "it has to get better, cause it can't get any worse." My sincere thoughts that things improve... dbrock/donna
wolfycat

wolfycat

18 years 7 months ago

Jess, so sad...

This is a great, straightforward write. Honest, searching emotions. Thank you for sharing this poem. Wolfy.
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orgami

18 years 7 months ago

wind that blows

out on the street well i have been there happy birthday on turning fifty seven more years for me christmas soon halloween next all commercial holidays i pray to at times there is something there there really is ..O..
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Conect11

18 years 7 months ago

and so

life has thrown you a curve? Do you have any immediate help or are you truly on the street? Oh Jess! I hope that you are alright. I have been homeless twice and know the frustration, but also the freedom that it provides. While the poem is deeply moving, I'm more concerned about the reason behind it. Mark W.
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jacks

18 years 7 months ago

Wow How honestly writen! Not

Wow How honestly writen! Not easy to do. I identify with "got used to living with rats" I assume you mean the bipedal kind? Jacks
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IKnowNoBox

18 years 7 months ago

A poem hard written

with a twist of humour. I am thinking and praying outside the box for you. In ink, Dabbler ps Happy Birthday
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 7 months ago

Thanks folks

not on the street yet. But 25 hours a week on a shop clerks pay won't pay the rent. Need new flatmates urgently or emergency housing, but I earn too much for that! oh, both bipedal and quadrapedal kinds! 8) Everything just seemed to be going so well then this hit me like a sledgehammer from behind. Ah well, the nature of Jess is irrepresible! Something will come up. cheers, Jess
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IKnowNoBox

18 years 7 months ago

How are the Hostels

in Australia? Try this people who are tempararly without habitate go to hostels look for possible flat mates there plus you can ejoy some good eats.worked once for me. In ink, Dabbler
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purplemoondoll

18 years 7 months ago

Can Relate

I wish you luck my friend. I don't know why but this seems to be a theme at present . I just learned a very good friend is about to lose her flat for the same reason. Stay irrepressible - something WILL come up I am sure. My thoughts are with you. Kaz x
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purplemoondoll

18 years 7 months ago

I find it incredible

that even in so called 'civilised modern society' politicians still allow homelessness to run riot. It's a disease we should have stamped out years ago instead of using money to go to war. This poem hits hard and I know a lot of the people I have worked with over the years would applaud these words. Nice work - and I wish you luck. Kaz x It's impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 7 months ago

Thanks again folks,

I believe in prayer and accept all yours gratefully. I hate self pity but they say bad things come in 3's. Lost flatmates, which provoked depression and illness which threatens my job, looking nervously around for number 3. Do Americans have the expression "tinbum"? we use it to mean someone who's luck comes good at the worst moment. Always been a tinbum. And I expect you all to join me for my 50th birthday in the chat-room if it is up by then (2nd December). Warning, it may be the very last time you see me use mis-spelling or express myself incoherently! cheers, Jess
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barbsdad2003

18 years 7 months ago

Hey, Jess!

Another trying time I see. My thoughts hang out with you. I wish, though, such thoughts would help (at least for a time) with the rent. Yours, Chuck PS: How strange (and ironic) that countries that consider themselves the most civilized have such huge (and so god-awful many) cracks for people who have greatest need to stumble into and then fall through---to what can be a subterranean, out-of-sight-out-of-mind hell. Shame on them all.