Did you know Orlando has a poet laureate? Spoken-word artist Shawn Welcome went from homeless to being in high-demand. Buddy ...

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SIMON:I wrote this poem in the early nineties. It's interesting to write about homelessness because it's a real visible manifestation of something that's not working properly in society.

Nobody goes into poetry to get rich. But at Shawn Welcome’s low point, he was pretty much homeless. He was married with children, yet relying on friends and relatives to take them in.