Brother Pat Mohen wrote a poem in response to the newspaper article.
PROBLEMS
I read an interesting article
in the daily morning paper
regarding a homeless man,
fined almost six two oh dollars
for sleeping under the Causeway.
A week later, a lady ‘journo’
commented on this case
and added another such case
of a man sleeping in King’s Park.
All this info grows out of a centre
where I worked for eleven years.
I am now useless and now ‘in care’ myself,
having had a leg removed
and the other one is in a bad state.
The care centre I am now in
is fairly good in its caring
but when I read about such situations
that I helped work with
up until a few years ago,
I feel so utterly useless
and a totally useless ‘has been’.
Organised by my former boss Peter;
he is surrounded by cases and cures.
If only I could be useful again.
