a painting of mcintosh street in georgia painted in the 1940's by a man, frank stanley herring. i saw this painting after i had written this next poem and after i talked to my grand mother and she mentioned this street to me. i didn't know it existed because by the time i was coming up the black business district was gone. and the past few years i think they erected a monument to it. nigger street. 1937. mcintosh street the sign reads like the apple. red but not red delicious red but like red on red eyes gravy on grit the and stop lights and green and yellow. and red like those powders and syrups kept behind the counter at blocks pharmacy. red. and red like the stripe on richard's barb bar pole and the stitches on button holes on over alls of those coming to down on saturday. solid red at the blue moon and red like the eyes of the late staying patrons on sunday mornings. and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together, closing. red as a congregation rises. [applause]. >> this references a lynching. the lynching of 2 couples in monroe, geor

>>stanley: this is in san francisco right outside franks discounts center.e man in the blue and black jacket is sitting on the ground under the atm. which is in violation of san francisco sit and lye law. here are the two of them meeting up with three other people on waller street on the steps of a home where the woman seen here is drinking from a container. when she's done with the container she leaves it on the ledge of the home. the drink?, vodka. over on the panhandle i found this man downing a 40 oz bottle of beer on a park bench. after finishing his beer he grabs his backpack and heads out the park and back up the street to haight street. since sit and lye is now being inforced, many of the people that used to hang out on haight are now ending up on side streets. many buy their boose off haight, walk back to the park or another street to consume it, and then head back to haight street. many just end up on the panhandle where some neighbors have noticed an uptick of visitors. one lady called it, bum central. while some people believe sit and lye only ap