On Seeing A Woman, Deem-able as Eyesore to ChurchPeople on 'TheLord'sDay,' Near-Bare-Breasted-Sleeping at Mass Time for St. Martin of Tours Church
I,
homeless but sheltered do too go to St. Martin of Tours (not my Anglican affiliates in Louisville) for Mass around 10am on Sundays that I have been in St. Vincent de Paul shelter for men (on Jackson Street in the 1000-Block);
TODAY
AT THE SHELBY STREET @ BROADWAY EXIT-BUS-SHELTER GETTING OFF TO HEAD TO ST. MARTIN'S
I SAW A WOMAN LYING ON THE SIDEWALK, WEARING A BLACK BREAST-TOP OF COLOR-BLACK, JUST BARELY MISSING THE DISPLAY OF HER 'MILKERS'. . .
We as social scientists know of 'culture shock'-- this psychic disruption was approximately what I felt on sight of this nameless woman, and I suppose that some of the say 200 people who went to 10-o'clock service at St. Martin's-- if not the people passerby on TARC (the Metropolitan Transit Authority buses), if not TheCops, and there too was I. . .
One who too slept rough-on-the-sidewalk for the first night in my life on or about the 19tclah of May, the second night that is of claiming but an open sky for my bedroom ceiling, and of in all three nights sleeping in town under the sky with the Campers and all who have not nice bedrooms in buildings in which to sleep. . .
SHE, THE WOMAN SLEEPING AT THE SIDEWALK AT THE SHELBY-STREET BUS SHELTER, ROLLED OVER AS I WATCHED HER; I SUPPOSE SHE FOUND THE SIDEWALK A HARD MATTRESS AS I DID THE NIGHT THE COPS (LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE) KICKED ME OUT OF CENTRAL PARK UPON MY BEGGING FROM UTTER EXHAUSTION TO BE TAKEN TO A SHELTER, A BEGGING THAT THAT NIGHT WAS MET WITH FURY BY SOME MALE LIEUTENANT TYPE WHO TOLD ME TO GET OUT, GO AWAY, LIKE GET-LOST
as if all the while my request all along had not been JUST TO SEE NIMA KULKARNI, the Immigration Lawyer and State Representative, the social-justice advocate who had in all this fray volunteered to be my communal and legal advocate in what has now become a huge Thunderstorm and 'gully-washer' of evictions as now the Moratorium on Evictions (which never in my case though viable-enough, did not at all apply).
BACK TO THE WOMAN SO EXPOSED AT THE CORNER OF SHELBY AND BROADWAY. . .AND MY 'SPIRITUAL MEAL' (as what is called 'Spiritual Communion' to both Anglicans and Roman Catholics) in St. Martin's
I KEPT FEELING that the utter and captivating beauty of the Palestrina and Plainsong liturgics with "HER" OUT THERE UNTIL I GUESS THE COPS INTERVENED-- YES AS UNSIGHTLY SHE WAS WITH ALL THE CHURCH-FOLKS HEADING TO WORSHIP and the Lessons and Sermon at my Catholic-attendance-locus was about the martyrdom of a St. Magnus, a 'Christian witness in blood' as the 'martyr-womb-an' on the streetcorner out there was not deemed a saint at all, but likely just an
EYESORE and maybe with the POGROM of rough sleepers at hand, my 'rough sleeper lady' now is sheltered in one of the jails we have (the so-called Hall of Justice being the main-jail).
PRAISE to the Roman Catholics for making and keeping memory of 'saints' who died as blood-witnesses; BUT WHAT PRAISE cometh as needs-be for the women, especially the women I say as womanly transF woman-worshipper, whose blood boils in the Dog Day sun on August sidewalks in Louisville (and all other pertinent places like here). . . WHAT PRAISE for a venue that has a common-common-law-as-cheap-as-common legal situation where I CAN ALMOST SEE HER BOOBS AS SHE ROLLS OVER, THE EYESORE MADONNA WHO IS WITNESS/Μαρτυρ FOR SHEER INDIFFERENCE, MORE-LIKE DISDAIN, MORE LIKE REVULSION THAT SHALL BE PUNISHED,
no matter my Jesus or his ChurchPeople, no matter at all that we Eyesores with bodies made of matter cannot simply disappear OR AS IN NUCLEAR SCIENCE be transformed into an ENERGY that could nuke-away LORDS OF LAND AND THEIR COMMON ALL TO CHEAPLY COMMON LAW privileges that could with some good explosion
give us, the Eyesore Today at Broadway&Shelby and I, a bloody OK witness that THE LOADED DICE OF EVICTION'S LORDS-LAND needs to recognize emphatically that WE PARTNERS TO THE LIVING OF TENANCY HAVE OUR OWN EQUITIES, IN SWEAT AND BLOOD to add value to the commune of Community. . .
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