By Mari Ston Santa Monica
This is a letter to everyone who is living one pay-check or less, from being homeless. There are programs to help you eat and stay clean. They have homes and computers that you have to sign up to use. You have to give all of your life history personal information. You are assigned a social worker that tries to help you find housing, which is a very difficult thing to do because of housing shortage. Its against the law to be homeless, so you will be seeing police and getting camping tickets. Some of your new roommates are cool, while others will steal you blind. Welcome to the sewer of reality, how to keep your sanity trying to deal with life on the ground level. Like I said there are programs, stay in touch with God and you will make it, this is just another test from life. Good luck.
P.S. I’m homeless.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 8, 2008. Read the original PDF.