Spoken by someone living in a homeless encampment, "(S)Weep Us" is about being pushed from place to place. The first lines pile up repeated words, "another hole, another alley, another pole", so the speaker's life feels like an endless loop of moving on. The title plays on "sweep" and "weep": the clean-up operations that clear the camp, and the grief that follows.
The speaker is angry and worn down. The language is blunt, even crude, as they describe tents torn down and belongings impounded until "it's as if we've never been." There's a sense of being erased. Mentioning the Shantytown, the Jungle, Favala and Hooverville links this camp to other poor communities that have been cleared away or looked down on.
Then the poem turns. After all that loss, the last line is quiet and short: home is where "the heart beats still." The mood shifts from bitterness to stubborn survival, suggesting that people, not tents, make a home.