The music moves variously along eleven of the twelve tones of the chromatic continuum, with a lyric that looks at the condition of homelessness - specifically, along the “boardwalk” at the Venice and Santa Monica beaches in California - where men and, sometimes, women and even children live in little tabernacles of cloth and cardboard.  Familiar neighbors, whom we, as passers-by, can occasionally get to know.  And what can we say?