RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS
The Homeless Problem
They used to hide the homeless problem
Put em on a bus to the next town
Let em find shelter in the countryside
Banish them and put them down
Now there are more homeless than ever
Under bridges and along the tracks
They live in villages of tents
They keep count of them in stacks
They used to call them Hoover towns
Before they moved them underground
Now you see them all around
The black the red the yellow and brown
Portland is a city that cares
Providing services and shelters
Many cities could not care less
Running roughshod helter skelter
The line dividing us from them
is as fine as it could be
Lose a job or have an accident
Turn around and then you’ll see
What happened to the homeless
could easily happen to you or me
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