When you pass homeless shelters you see huddled masses of humans on the various types of walls at or near these shelters.

The birds are always in transition from wire to wire, treetop to treetop, limb to limb, nest to nest in search of a place to sleep or rest.

The homeless are constantly in transition from wall to wall, shelter to shelter, door way to door way, bus shelter to bus shelter, cat house to cat house, bridge to bridge, abandon car to abandon car, cardboard box to cardboard box in search of a place to sleep or rest.

Birds are in constant search of food from the ground, trashcans, dumps, dumpsters, feeders and anywhere they can scavenge food.

The homeless are constantly in search of food from shelters, soup kitchens, street handouts, trash cans, dumps, dumpsters and bins behind grocery stores where out dated food is discarded.

Birds molt feathers and bathe in puddles, streams or water banks in order to preen themselves.

The homeless obtain clothing from clothing closets in shelters, clothing bank give away, trash cans, dumpsters, dumps and steal from each other when a bag, carrying case or cart is left unattended. They sometimes bathe at the shelters when forced to or when they can no longer stand to smell the stench coming from their bodies or clothing. Naturally, the clothing is discarded because of being lice and flea ridden as well as burdensome to wash, compile and carry.

Birds thrive on liquid sustenance from puddles, streams, drainage ditches, discarded dripping beer cans, beer or wine bottles. As the old saying goes, an occasional nip to keep the worms away.

The homeless thrive on liquid sustenance from water fountains, bottled water when purchased or given away, beer, wine and alcohol when able to purchase or steal it. In addition, when available by whatever means they smoke marijuana, crack cocaine, snort powdered cocaine and heroin as well as cook up heroin and cocaine for injection into the blood stream. This type of abuse usually takes place in crack houses or cathouses.

A crack house is usually run by an individual who resides there and allows people to come in and bring narcotics for use or purchase narcotics from a dealer who frequents the house for the sole purpose of making sales. Naturally, the users have to bless the houseman before and during their usage and when their product is completed, they are asked to leave or forcibly ejected.

A cat house is an abandoned house or building that has been unlawfully entered by one or more individuals and set up specifically for sleeping, sex, alcohol consumption and narcotic use. The rules are simple, you have to share everything with the founders and comply with their demands or vacate peaceably or forcibly.

Birds have been known to spread viruses, diseases, lice, fleas, ticks and germs.

The homeless spread sexually transmitted diseases, hiv/a.i.d.s, various flu epidemics, lice, fleas, germs, etc.. Unlike birds, the homeless can seek remedies through the various health and human services agencies, but rarely do because they are afraid that while they are being medically serviced they maybe missing something back in their chosen area of frequency.

There are many dangers and dangerous people amongst the homeless. There are those released from prison or mental institutions; however, the most dangerous are the military veterans. These individuals have been trained by the military, some battled tested, who can and will at a moment’s notice snap and lash out in an uncontrolled but controlled violent episode. If take alive, they will most likely be retreaded through a military penal and/or psychological/psychiatric facility until deemed fit to re-enter society.

Because of urban development and expansion, there are fewer trees, limbs and nest; with more wires as the resting places for birds.

Because of the economy, there are more homeless people, fewer and over-crowded shelters with little or no effort being made to address this burdenous situation thrust upon society at large.

In frigid times, the bird on the wire facing the wind periodically rises into the air and the others open a space for it to settle in order to get warmth; however, the homeless person facing the wind freezes, catches pneumonia and is hospitalized or dies on the spot.

The remedy for birds is simple, when destroying a tree, plant a tree. What hope is there for the homeless?