September 14, 2017 | By Matt Wallace | One Comment
One Sock. No Shoes.
She looks like a skeleton with skin.
Smiling, she says,
“I’m going to rehab tonight!
…But I have no shoes.”
Her smile drops to a frown as her eyes fill with tears that flood down her sunken cheeks.
“Isn’t that pathetic?”
I’m so pathetic.
I can’t even take care of myself.
I have no clue where the shoes I had went.
I just want to be clean and sober.
I feel so stuck.
I hate this.” Read More
September 6, 2017 | By drybones_admin | 4 Comments
Thoughts by India Nikotich, 2017 Summer Intern
The culture of street kid life is inherently transient – beds, clothes, and meals come and go on a day by day basis. It’s not uncommon to see someone flying a sign on 16th street mall to raise money for a Greyhound bus ticket, saving up a bit each day in the hope of moving on from Denver. The promised land is often the promise of job in a faraway city, or the dream of a new street to hang out on or a new climate.
On 16th street a few weeks ago, we encountered a man on his way to Ogden, Utah, who had rolled off a train too early and found, instead, the Queen City skyline rising ahead of him. I also often think of a friend I met four years ago, an older woman who had been traveling across the
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