[ExI] Homelessness (was Re: Social right to have a living)

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of spike

>...But now we have all that Jeff had in the 70s, plus access in a hundred
places in every little town to the internet, so you can look up stuff, find
out what goes on, keep in touch with friends, and perhaps most importantly,
you can make notes or write your road novel... spike


To expand on that a bit, I would like to see a really talented expressive
writer such as Jeff Davis, write a road novel based on his time as a
homeless person.  

Some of my own most fun stuff comes from my summer of 83 experience as an
almost homeless person in Seattle.  I had a 50 dollar a month "apartment" of
sorts, which wasn't actually an apartment, but rather a homebrew free
standing wooden structure with a bed in it, set up in an enclosed garage.
But it made sense at the time: it was safer and somewhat warmer than
actually living on the streets (didn't have electricity or running water,
but it was good shelter from the wind) with reduced risk of being injured or
seriously killed by others in similar circumstances.  

I was an oddball among the semi-homeless: I had a bachelor's degree in
engineering, used no alcohol, no drugs, no tobacco, just a 22 yr old kid
trying to make it all summer on a bit less than 400 dollars.

spike