Jaz Colibri

Nov 7, 2024 | thestreetspirit.org | Jaz Colibri |Bradley M. Penner

cuffs tight or loose, still a noose round a fist, raised on not knowing where or when the next meal will be no time to imagine a cop city cuz the plans have already been drawn the funding’s already been got the buildings went up yesterday cops had their sundown towns since the beginning, these days seems the sun don’t even come round no more so much imagination died when cops first pinned on their badges and drew no blood just to spend every waking hour trying to kill the memory of a time...

Aug 5, 2024 | thestreetspirit.org | Jaz Colibri |Laura Zink

a numbers game View Articles in Other Categories All CategoriesOpinion Commentary First-person LettersFeatures In Dialogue Homeless No More Street SpiritsNewsArts and Culture YSA youth contributions Fiction Community Events Poetry Cartoons 16,000,000 housing units sit vacant on Turtle Island with more than 650,000 people living on Turtle Island’s streets everyone could be housed with over 15,000,000 housing units to spare if slum lords and wealth hoarders actually cared in occupied Huichin...

Apr 17, 2024 | peoplestribune.org | Jaz Colibri

16,000,000 housing units sit vacant on Turtle Island with more than 650,000 people living on Turtle Island’s streets everyone could be housed with over 15,000,000 housing units to spare if slum lords and wealth hoarders actually cared in occupied Huichin more than 10,000 housing units sit empty and meek while more than 5,000 people are out on these streets more than enough to provide everyone a home in a matter of weeks but instead slum lords and wealth hoarders would rather spend blood money...

Apr 2, 2024 | thestreetspirit.org | Jaz Colibri |Bradley M. Penner

how many times / can a city take / the last things / an old black man has / on this earth?

Nov 29, 2023 | thestreetspirit.org | Jaz Colibri |Bradley M. Penner

out from behind a locked empty dumpster tucked in a dead end street armed with security cameras that read “SMILE! …or we’ll shoot :)” a slick but groggy Malice slips out of bed into tailored times scare gucci suits stitched & shackled panels read: “insert your ad here” “mm mm good jailbird” “did you know geico can’t save you 15% or more on a life sentence?” where all the convicts sing, “verizon hired us” and “join our sprint scamily” “starbucks: drips of Crips in every cup!” “amazon: shirk...