Evicted, On the Edge of Homelessness.

Petr Swedock
4 min readJan 24, 2021

The return of Tom Joad

Photo by Jon Tysonon Unsplash

I arrived in Sarasota some time ago, on a pastel sunny day, when it was nearly 80 degrees, and the deep green palm leaves on the trees slowly rippling in the lazy breeze. At the end of my rope, after a nightmare year of pandemic and lockdown, I was offered a place to stay in the hopes of getting back on my feet. So I came to Sarasota.

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Petr Swedock

An unwieldy mix of the sacred and the profane, uneasily co-existing in an ever more fragile shell. Celebrating no-shave Nov since Sept 1989.