"I just have to be here when the Pope comes," says
Femi, a 38-year-old black man sitting behind a table on Philadelphia's
Benjamin Franklin Parkway. On green tablecloth, he displays artwork,
pictures he drew and wants to sell: one of the Pope caught in a selfie,
another of the Pope delivering a speech. He also sells a T-shirt showing
the Pope with a sheep around his neck.
The artist's real name is Adetokunbo Oluwafemi Ige, and he sleeps
a few feet behind his table on the grass beneath the trees on Parkway.
Femi has been living on the streets for over a
year, he says, since he left prison, where was incarcerated for eight
years. He's been on Parkway since the end of May.
He is homeless, but not lazy.READ MORE:http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-homeless-people-getting-kicked-out-of-the-park-they-call-home-because-of-the-pope-924
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