ROOFLess Radio Street-Writing Workshop on Yelamu Land

RoofLESS radio Street-Writing Workshops are offered by fellow houseless/formerly houseless povertyskolaz at POOR Magazine in schools, jail cells, shelter beds and wherever us poor peoples are...

Cody Ketterling

Here I sit broken hearted

Two years ago in March it started

5 years I shared a home and life  

A perfect beauty I called my wife

Still I left her without warning

While she even kept my supper warming  

Now forever lonely I shall weep 

I’ll weep and weep til I can sleep

Without the warmth I rarely rest  

The night time is torture I confess

I only deserve this shitty mess 

shitty shitty messy messy and 

forever misery misery misery

I create my misery like a world class artist

Here I sit broken hearted.

A poem for Jordy Rose

I hope peace has found you

You deserve to have only

Happiness I wish you the very best

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Dre

Once living a life in a broken home not really sure if I should stay here (home) never having anything to myself.  All I have I gotta share which I hated, so as a kid I would give away almost everything that was gifted to me.  Alone I felt and then there death in the family more alone.  Streets ? I come not wanting to be by myself.  Family-self

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Alicia Rochelle ?

My belongings were taken from me and I was attacked by DPW

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Stephanie McKay

My life was going so great at one point, everything I had been working on for thirty one years was coming to the goal line for my career, for my nephews and my nieces, my sisters and my brother, even for my mother and father as well as my step father, my step moms family, and well everyone was starting to really enjoy what they had ? ? into their lives, their existence.  Then suddenly one day my life went wow, what the hell just happened.  Unfortunately when your brain literally gets forced back together it may not always come back all in order, but fortunately character and personality always remain engraved? In all what we do and create, so if we just push forward, stay tough and strong willed and it isn’t worth the crisis.

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Ryan Minipin?

One of the worst things I have lived through was when a total stranger walked up behind me cut the back of my neck from ear to ear w/ a knife.  It cut me down to the spinal cord and I nearly bled out and died.  It was so senseless and so traumatic.  I couldn’t believe I nearly lost my life like that.

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Charity

I was with a woman for 5 years and when the pandemic hit she get a spinal infection and had an emergency surgery when she woke she was paralized from the neck down.  After she died I found out she was being torchered at the skilled nursing and rehabilitation center she was being cared for at.  They were hanging her upside down and starving her for water.  She didn’t want me to know because she thought it would make me mad.  I love you.

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Wilbur

The Event  that made me Homeless.  

I HAD the SFPD kick in my front Door even though the keys were in the lock.  They then proceeded to kick in my bedroom door bathroom door and even my closet door (with no lock)  Every door they kicked in was unlocked, they then took my dog and let my cat out while arresting me all because they were at the wrong apartment.  Because they said they didn’t want me and I quote “they didn’t want me in their apartment?

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Gitani Minyena

I find it uniquely ironic that I am having a tough time defining the word crisis ? etymology.  I am my own worst enemy accurately pinpoints my explanation of my own mind/adjust/change/and concept that criticism is accurate!

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Stanley Harris

I started using drugs, and later got addicted to the street Life.  I dropped out of school and later got board with how I was living.

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Joseph Moore

I was in prison 4 six years and got a drug habit that i didn’t expect to became addicted.  I been trying to set on the right track it won’t happen tomorrow but it will soon.

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Kayla Lowry

I asked a man for a light for my smoke.  Within that simple question he decided he and I were in love & in a relationship.  The next year and a half were a nightmare.  He beat me a total of 5 times and knocked out all of my teeth (I had perfect teeth before him). Put a gun to my head, bear-maced me, etc.  Somehow I survived and he is now doing life in prison 173 years to be exact.

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Barry Gwen

When I first started fentanyl it took alot of my friends lives from them and it really hurt me and it even made me overdose and die so it really is a curse.

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Syme Harris

My crisis began with my Divorce, the constant fighting and disrespect from my step kids caused my marriage to fall apart.  I left the situation with mixed feelings and lost my way.  I became homeless due to me not being able to focus.

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Eve ?

My worst crisis was losing my grandma and having to go to foster care.  I was young and didn’t really know how I was going to get over it.  Well, I never did.

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Anthony Rumbaugh

My biggest obstacle & Burden is getting my birth certificate to get my I.D. from out of state because this I qualified but didn’t get EDD $17,000 & also preventing me to get job housing, & Just Plain Carry ID which is the law. This has been my Biggest Struggle.

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Don Llewellyn

My worst crisis is the one I’m Dealing with presently.  I was coming Down there from  Chico. CA. when I was  Arrested for Possession.  They took my vehicle, and  made me Homeless with only the clothes I was wearing.  I’ve almost Died more times than I want to Remember As a result of this.  And It isn’t going to end until I win or lose my case.

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Dre Walker

A universal crisis is homelessness.  Broken homes addiction among other things such as incarceration and racism. One of my worst crisis is homelessness due to my addiction and my criminal lifestyle.

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Jaron DeGray?

One crisis that I had to deal with and still am dealing with is being homeless on the street by myself without family or friends.  I grew up working all my life, and housed.  Now going on six years i am still struggling with absolutely no help.  It’s even worst being on drugs but knowing and not forgetting where I came from.  I do see the light at the end of the tunnel.  I just tired of losing everything, including friends, but I will not give up so do hope to let everyone know hopefully in the future the worst of my story.

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Anna Torres

The worst crisis I went through was watching my father kill himself via slicing his wrist.I went through a very difficult depression after were I myself became suicidal.

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Russell Hams, age 34

Crisis for me has been a sort of pressure cooker  Th pressure made me harder (more powerful) but the experience of it was intense.  I was in a physically abusive relationship with someone I had deep emotional connection to, and it had me mentally confused, but spiritually dauntless.  I wanted so badly to enjoy the glimpses of serenity and love I saw in my partner, but it was only an illusion.  I had to ultimately recognize that the serenity and security were products of my spiritual ? with mental and emotional congruence.  Only when I aligned in all 3 areas am I “happy” crisis can make or break a person.  It made me who I am now.  I am one philosopher ?

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Ken Schnaler

One of My worst crisis was about 3 yrs ago when my Girl and me had a Pitbull Puppy that we rescued from a bad home  All was well until about 2 months in the dog got sick with Parvo.  Every vet wanted 3,000 dollars to help the dog.  I was never able to raise the money and the dog died.  It was the worst day of my life.

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Ruthie

Section 8 Public Housing lost all my paperwork causing me to have to jump through hoops.

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Javier Tanner

My worst crisis was suffering on the job injury causing my job not to be able to accommodate my restriction and me not being able to pay my rent and becoming homeless eventually due to these events.  When up to this day I have been homeless with little help to be ?

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Cameron Hill

The toughest crisis is the feeling that most of my peers are out to get me or is it not even a thing especially onez Ive helped in the past.

Derrick

My worst crisis was hurricane Katrina.  After losing everything we were determined to rebuild.  Nobody ever tell you that rebuilding would take so long.  10 years to get back to where we were, yet never to return home because home isn’t the same.  The homies who I’d visit on Thanksgiving to try their gumbo, they don’t live there anymore.  Neither does their grandparents. By 15 years, we were in the pandemic reacting again.

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WE HAD CAMPfiRE PROPERLY IN grounds

Cuzin became flygirl

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The worst crisis I experienced was financial issues.  Due to low poverty living I never gained credit growing up so therefore I was never accepted into a car loan, or to apply for a nice house.  Its an ongoing crisis in todays society. Is growing dramatically over the years.

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My entire life crisis is I can’t adult.  The older I get, the less responsible & self reliant I feel.  I choose mental stability over financial stability because I don’t see a point in working myself to death to pay for an apartment or house I’ll never truly get to enjoy.  I chose to travel in my late twenties and found myself living so much more abundantly & free? Then I was living with roommates working.  The universe seemed to just take care of me one day @ a time.   But after a terrible miscarriage & another attempt of living a supposed “more stable” life.  I realized once again & more strikingly, I cannot adult.  My 30’s came, and I started to take action the best way I know how to..  In my thoughts some would call it procrastination, but in truth I don’t jump into action without much well thought out planning first - even if it means inaction, I prefer doing nothing over fixing costly mistakes.  Seeing the scale of the homeless crisis got me thinking over time to not only save myself, but to save the world, or at least make it a better one..because this 9-5 overtime, income taxed wage-slave existence and corporate servitude as it exists is on some level of hell.  We could be living in heaven now if we can create the alternatives and fight the unjust absurdities - even if it’s just calling them out and questioning everything.  Why are we paying rent on the planet we were born on?  Why are we forced to pay for a lifestyle we don’t want?  Clearly its illegal to just exist.  Let’s make better choices /options, in communities where we can just work on growing our own food & making meals for ourselves & loved ones instead of working @ restaurants we couldn’t afford or other pointless career opportunities.  My old life sucked so I quit it. So can you.

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The hardest part of Family loss/Domestic Violence life is making and staying connected to a support group.  My friends have become my family over time.  But is always a struggle around the holidays and seeing other w/family

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There are three reasons I Became Homeless. 1st reason I moved from my mom house

The 2nd reasons I Became homeless Is I lost my Job

AND the third reason is I F the ? put me in Jail and f everything.  And there are the reasons I Lost my Home

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