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    Street Images II: Writings from Street People, #2
    Street Images II: Writings from Street People, #2
    Street Images II: Writings from Street People, #2
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    Street Images II: Writings from Street People, #2

    By Michael A. Susko

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    In this work Street Images, we are struck by the passion of the persons who speak through a variety of their lived experiences. One poet, who titles his or her poem, Anonymous, says:

     

                  So do not ask

                  Why we pass unknown...

                   It is enough that we blaze....

     

    These work are from many who have been  "On the Street" and "Behind Closed Doors." There's real pain, real joy, real triumph and real defeat in these writings. Such persons, who have extreme experiences, are driven to share them, whatever beauty, meaning, or lessons that can bring. So we invite you to join in their poetic passion, to immerse yourselves and feel the blaze that is within each of us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllrOneofUs Publishing
    Release dateMay 17, 2020
    ISBN9781393206927
    Street Images II: Writings from Street People, #2
    Author

    Michael A. Susko

    The author, an independent scholar, has degrees in Philosophy and Counseling Psychology. For many years, he taught a college course on Indigenous symbolism with an emphasis on imagery found on stone and in the landscape. Having experienced gifts from the Indigenous related to sites that Native Americans inhabited, and having studied their narratives, he offers this work.

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      Street Images II - Michael A. Susko

      PREFACE

      ––––––––

      As I complete and re-edit this second Street Images, I am struck by the consistency of theme, by the passion of the persons who speak through a variety of lived experiences. As one poet, who titles his or her poem, Anonymous, says:

      So do not ask

      Why we pass unknown...

      It is enough that we blaze....

      There’s real pain, real joy, real triumph and real defeat here, but such is the fabric of our lives. Persons, who have had  extreme experiences, are driven to share them, revealing beauty, meaning, and a way of surviving. And once we receive and take to heart but one message, we may find our entire lives changed. That is the poetic power, a power under-rated today. So we invite you for a while to immerse yourselves and to feel the blaze that is within each of us.

      Michael A. Susko, editor  5/17/2020

      ––––––––

      Cover Art, Cityscape by John Herman

      On the Street  – Louis Tragessor

      Behind Closed Doors – Mary Cate Carrol, Waiting for Godot

      Flowers in the City  – Robert Fish

      INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION

      Four years ago, an edition of Street Images was published on the premise that the homeless and those who have suffered brokenness have something of value to communicate to society. People are still on the street, still on locked wards, and still communicating. Enough material has been collected to publish a second edition of Street Images.

      It is the hope of this journal, as witnessed by the voices within, that our model of care relies on compassion and not control. And perhaps, in listening to the voices of the broken, we too may become more whole.

      The first section On the Street contains writings from those who have been on the street or currently are. The second section, entitled Behind Closed Doors, includes writings from those who have been in Psychiatric Hospitals or Halfway Houses.

      Finally, Flowers in the City, gives us images of hope, that despite the pain and suffering, flowers can be found in the city.

      Michael A. Susko, editor

      *A biographical sketch of some authors is found in the appendix.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      It takes a bit of faith and the active support of many people to finish a project like this. For their financial support and moral support I would like to thank Kay Homer, Lisa Renshaw, Harry Livingstone, Josie Kostritsky, Ek Correlli, Lowell Glendon, Marian Viets and Robin.

      Especially I would like to thank Carol Seddon who loaned me her electronic typewriter and who proofread much of the text.

      To those who helped in the final stages: Bruce Whitcomb who was willing to be interviewed, Carl Schoettler who has provided newspaper coverage, and to the Workers Action Press.

      And lastly to the many authors who entrusted their work to me, and for all the homeless and broken people everywhere.

      ON THE STREET

      Creativity cares about everything

      This world is but a piece of paper to God

      Jim Brown

      The American Way of Life

      and the cold shoulder

      The song done by Johnny Cash

      Walk on by

      People develop a cast of mind

      They always convenience themselves

      The U. S. of A. is on sentimental easy street.

      Robert Page

      No gurus arise

      in cold weather. We share priests

      Bag man, and poets,

      Michael K. O’Doherty

      ––––––––

      This Hat is My Story

      On the cap’s front visor is a red reflector and an electric on-off switch. A plastic Statue of Liberty, with a rubber tire around its base, is on the right. On the left is a patch labeled Canada, a choo-choo train, and a yellow plastic bird. An orange band encircles the hat. (Editor’s description.)

      "The hat’s name

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