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Nomad

By jfarrell

All my life wandering, travelling

From family home into children’s home

From one to another

Then to my own flat

Which I lost

Homeless

Doorway to subway

Into a hostel

Then another hostel

Followed by 20 years

Of cheap bed-sits

With yellowing, mouldy walls

Breakdown, suicide attempt

Into hospital

For longer than any bedsit

Into a hostel

And still the wandering goes on

Like a nomad

I move from place to place

Searching for the place to stop and stay.