Showing posts with label homeless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homeless. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Library Haiku, Part 1


This is for Hit 40, who may not be considering the downside to libraryland:

Ten bucks, no kidding
He offers for a blow job.
I'll call a guard, free.
Now, this was when I worked at the main library downtown - I am at a branch now, in a very conservative neighborhood with an older population, which is perfect for me - but is representative of some of the more uh, sticky situations one might find sitting at a public service desk at a library. I sat at the teen desk downtown when a homeless man from a nearby shelter stopped by to make the above offer. The officer on the phone at the security desk laughed and told me that the going rate for downtown Akron was $25. My son, top left with the box on his head, said, hey, you should ask for fifty. Nice. My own son is trying to pimp me out for the price of a video game.