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Category: Words on the Street

Now available: the first Words on the Street book!

Via Negativa’s street-wise, virtual guest writer has been gracing these pages since 2004.

Posted on April 6, 2012April 6, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Homeless guy with sign: The un-strip-searched life is not worth living.

 

Supreme Court approves strip searches for minor offenses.

Posted on March 30, 2012March 30, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Homeless guy with sign: I'm not sitting, I'm under-standing my ground

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Homeless guy with sign: Not homeless -- habitationally challenged

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Homeless guy with sign: I'm not a 4G hotspot, but for $20/hour I'll let you hold my sign

 

Thanks for caring! Now please get out of my sun.

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Homeless guy with sign: Invisibility Begins at Home #KONY2012

For background, see here.

Posted on March 2, 2012March 2, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

Homeless guy with sign: Don't forget to write

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Homeless guy with sign: I'm feeling lucky

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Homeless guy with sign: Let me know if you are not completely satisfied

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Here at Via Negativa Industries, customer satisfaction is Job 1. Both our Words on the Street t-shirts and other swag as well as the fabulous book of 109 of the best cartoons have been rigorously product-tested under the most challenging outdoor conditions. Final statistical analyses of the results are still awaited.

Posted on February 10, 2012February 10, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Homeless guy with a sign: Stand By For Further Instructions

Yes, that’s right: more installments in the Manual series are on the way. And if you hurry, you still might be able to get the Words on the Street book and/or t-shirts and other items in time for Valentine’s Day, for that special bum on your own street-corner.

Posted on February 3, 2012February 3, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the Street

Beggar with sign: Donate to my Super PIC (Political Inaction Committee)

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To support the bum who publishes this blog, don’t forget you can purchase Words on the Street t-shirts and other swag as well as a fabulous book of 109 of the best cartoons. Blogger Lucy Kempton recently called it “wonderful,” adding that it “works very well” in the Kindle format.

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About

Via Negativa is a unique experiment in daily, poetic conversation with the living and the dead. Dave Bonta founded the site in 2003 and Luisa A. Igloria joined in 2010. Guest authors contribute as well. Dave writes daily erasure poems to discover the poetry hidden in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Luisa has been writing and posting a poem a day since November 2010, often in response to Dave’s entries at The Morning Porch. Collections of poems first published at Via Negativa include Luisa’s The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis and Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser, and Dave’s Ice Mountain and Breakdown: Banjo Poems. Read more…

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