A comment on "At Home With The Homeless"

     This piece was written while I was (belatedly) going to college.  The sub-title was added because some of my classmates thought that it may have been exaggerated a little.  It wasn't.  The people who lived there had nowhere else to go, except for the streets.  I lived there because I got a break on the rent for cleaning up every morning and for policing the residents at night.  My decision to leave was made one morning when I realized that confrontation and violence had become a way of life, i.e. I was at home with the homeless.