“Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You’re on the outskirts of society.” — Frank Dillane

• This isn’t New York
• The city sleeps tonight
• There are a handful of people awake —
• Emergency medical, police, 24 hour convenience,
• Stragglers down the street to nowhere
• But it is the stragglers who interest us the most
• They stumble occasionally with hooded eyes
• Going nowhere, coming from nowhere
• What is pounding in their hearts, what message?
• It must be fearsome being one of the stragglers
• Gone are the certainties of homely middle-class life
• Now rising up like a wall are the new realities
• Not enough money
• Need for some liquid sustenance
• A longing for companionship
• The straggler walks alone tonight