I live in a condo,
with heat in the winter,
and hot water (most of the time),
and a comfortable bed (beginning to sag),
but ultimately
it's fate, luck, the grace of God
that keeps me here.

I don't deserve this,
any more than the people in the photo below
deserve to be living on the street. 

These spaces we occupy
are simply temporary homeless shelters.

We imagine permanence,
but delude ourselves.

Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.