Meet the Homeless People Getting Kicked Out of the Park They Call Home Because of the Pope's Visit

"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.
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