The East Side of it All

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Joseph Dandurand. The East Side of it All

Contents

This Is My Path

The First Day

Muddy Waters

The Silent Scream

Violins

Wayfinding

Into the Centre

The Shame of Man

Street Scene

Street Healer 1

I Don’t Know When I Am Going

Get Away

Take It Slow

Street Healer 2

Prizefighters

Songs of the Mountains

The Great Snake

The Little People

Love Story

Feeling Hollow

The Sturgeon’s Lover

Something to Give

As the Bones Fall

From the Top of the Mountain

When the City Is Sleeping

There Is Always Laughter

The Gift of Forgiveness

Days into Days

I Like the One

When You See into My Eyes

Kwantlen

I Won’t Be Afraid

With a Good Mind and Heart

Onward to the Great River

To Not Belong

The Last Indian Bar

Words Never Mentioned

Going Back Home

Flight

Song of the Hawks

About the Author

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The East Side of It All

I have been up and down the streets of this city and I never close my eyes as I wait and accept it all as the drunk Indian brother pisses himself, the weak just keep doing their thing.

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As the sun sets and the moon rises up into a clear dark night, the streets move slower as the day people lay down for a few hours of restless sleep and the night people start their rounds to search for whatever it is they need and the junkies are quick to score as the dealers lay in wait for them to change money for drugs and then the drunks of the night are already two bottles in and they puke it up and continue on as the working girls and boys stand on the corners trying to appear beautiful. To me they are, as I can see their pasts and in them I can feel pity as they get into a truck or a car to do their thing.

A few hours later the corner they stand on is holding them up as the drugs focus on their minds and destroy the horrors of their lives. As all this is going on, the moon falls a bit as the night is almost done and the sun creeps over the edge as if watching the east side and making sure it is safe enough for the sun to come out and light the sorrow one more time.

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