"I wonder how many commentators saw this about the homeless because they already knew that was what the author intended? and how many saw it as a "painting" of sorts because they knew [the] author..."
I immediately read the poem as about the homeless, without having seen the original thread and without any idea of who had written it. (Nor was I bothered by the keen imagination and intelligence of the speaker; even some of the bright and sensitive among us can be homeless. I was a bit startled, though, by those responses that missed the obvious 1st person ["our"] narrative strategy.)
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