Comments on: The Cardboard Box Man http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/04/05/the-cardboard-box-man/ Food, family and synchronicity, in mostly equal parts Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:47:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Harmony Kieding http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/04/05/the-cardboard-box-man/#comment-27732 Harmony Kieding Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:39:33 +0000 http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/04/05/the-cardboard-box-man/#comment-27732 Interesting to come across this post and poem in my wanderings! I lead a large discussion/action forum on Homelessness in Care2.com. The group description: "The homeless are increasingly victims of hate crimes and anti-poor laws by society. More families are out on the streets. We need affordable housing and living wages and solutions for a just society. Please join and help educate others!" Sometimes it doesn't take that much to happen before we who lead typical lives become the Cardboard Box Man or the Cardboard Box Woman. We hear the saying "we're all just one or two paychecks away from homelessness"- and it's true. Sometimes most of us are just an accident, illness, or domestic dispute away from homelessness... or a flood, fire, earthquake, or tsunami away. Interesting to come across this post and poem in my wanderings!

I lead a large discussion/action forum on Homelessness in Care2.com. The group description:

“The homeless are increasingly victims of hate crimes and anti-poor laws by society. More families are out on the streets. We need affordable housing and living wages and solutions for a just society. Please join and help educate others!”

Sometimes it doesn’t take that much to happen before we who lead typical lives become the Cardboard Box Man or the Cardboard Box Woman. We hear the saying “we’re all just one or two paychecks away from homelessness”- and it’s true. Sometimes most of us are just an accident, illness, or domestic dispute away from homelessness… or a flood, fire, earthquake, or tsunami away.

]]> By: Apartment 2024 » Blog Archive » On Homelessness–A National Poetry Month offering http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/04/05/the-cardboard-box-man/#comment-26757 Apartment 2024 » Blog Archive » On Homelessness–A National Poetry Month offering Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:43:00 +0000 http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/04/05/the-cardboard-box-man/#comment-26757 [...] This poem is my mother’s take on Robert, the Cardboard Box Man, who I wrote about yesterday. [...] [...] This poem is my mother’s take on Robert, the Cardboard Box Man, who I wrote about yesterday. [...]

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