Recent Sights of Homelessness
Some declarative sentences of recent sights:
A man bicycled down the street towing a baby carrier full of cans and bottles. He had two fishing poles stuffed inside the load as well.
A elderly man and his dog slept in a plush chair of a furniture display in the middle of Fred Meyer. His possessions were next to him.
A large sunburned man unloaded strands of Christmas lights from a battered truck to decorate his RV in a homeless encampment.
A man read a Zane Grey Western while sitting on a bench in the rain while surrounded by his possessions.
An occupant of a two-storey plywood shanty had constructed a dumb waiter to service both storeys.
An elderly bearded man rolled up a tattered green sleeping bag on a sidewalk. It was the only possession on his person.
A young man was passed out in a flower bed.
A black cat stood atop a tarped pile on a pirate homeless ship.
A man surrounded by garbage raked leaves out of his encampment.
A man sitting at a picnic table warmed up coffee with a lighter-fuel fire in a frying pan.
An elderly woman in a wheelchair ate a meal provided by a church surrounded by her possessions.
A young man worked out with dumbbells waiting for his meal provided by a church.
A woman wearing aluminum foil as shorts sat on a curb as rain fell on her.
A man in black and wearing a black baseball glove was dancing in the rain like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
A man and woman yelled at each other in the rain.
A man bicycled away from a dive bar to his RV down the street.
A man and a woman pushing two shopping carts full of gear argue at a crosswalk and then go their separate ways.
A couple of undetermined age backpacked through a food pantry line. He had a sword strapped to his side.
An older man took a nap in the sun on a grassy median between two banks.
A pit bull at breakfast while tethered to an RV.
A tent was pitched mere inches from a railroad track.
A man and a woman with tiny dogs in their backpacks walked through a food pantry line.
A bearded and elderly man wearing a safety vest directed traffic at a McDonald's drive-thru.
A man carrying a Santa Claus bag full of empty cans and bottles over his shoulder ate a vanilla Popsicle.
A man with red hair, wearing pink shorts and an orange t-shirt panhandled with a cardboard sign in the median of a busy boulevard.
A man slept with his feet up in an abandoned recliner on a street corner.
A man slept on piles of bagged manure compost in front of a grocery store.
A woman argued with a full shopping cart full of possessions she pushed across a busy intersection.
A tall man wearing the leather and chain outfit of a bondage master rode a bicycle towing an attached cart full of possessions. Taped to the back of the cart was a sign declaring he needed $80 to make rent.
A young man with long hair rode a scooter with a propane tank attached to it.
A man dragged himself out of a portable toilet and into a wheelchair. He wheeled himself to his tent in a homeless encampment.
A maskless man rode a one-speed kid's bike with a banana seat down the street and said to any pedestrians wearing masks,“I don't believe in masks.”
A man knelt near a creek in the city and brushed his teeth and washed his face.
A man in a parking lot of a street mission hugged a Chihuahua and talked baby talk to it.
A woman in the library with two large shopping bags full of clothes and camping items shopped for dresses online.
A man made a fence of old Traeger grills around his tent.
A plastic stegosaurus the size of refrigerator rested atop the hood of a truck in a homeless encampment.
A resident of an RV in a homeless encampment mounted three dish satellites on the top of his or her rig.
A woman fell out of the passenger seat of a sedan on blocks in a homeless encampment and she didn't wake up.
A sign taped to a RV reads: “I'm leaving after payday.”
A man lived in culvert he shared with beavers.