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Bud Osborn
Bud Osborn (4 August 1947 – 6 May 2014) was a poet, community organizer, and activist in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Following his prolonged struggle with heroin addiction and alcohol dependency, Osborn became a founding member of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and advocated for the creation of a legal supervised injection site. His poetry commented on poverty and homelessness in Vancouver.
==Life==
Osborn was born as Walton Homer Osborn III in Battle Creek, Michigan to Patricia Osborn (née Barnes) and Walton Homer Osborn II. He spent his childhood in Toledo, Ohio, where his father, who had been a pilot and German prisoner in World War II, was a reporter for the ''Toledo Blade''. Walton Osborn committed suicide when Bud Osborn was three years old. His mother, who also served in the US military, reportedly married seven times. As a child Osborn saw her get raped by a stranger whom she brought home from a drinking establishment. At 15, he attempted suicide by taking Aspirin.〔
Osborn remarked that he was an athlete in high school. It was there that he began to read and write poetry. He entered Ohio Northern University but dropped out after two years. He married and had a son. They moved to his wife's hometown, the New York city, but the marriage failed. He started using hard drugs. In 1969 he left the U.S. and moved with his family to Toronto in order to avoid draft for the Vietnam War,〔 His wife Julie and son Aeron later left for Oregon.〔 He would be estranged from his son Aeron for three decades. In 1970 he published his first chapbook of poetry by the Toronto Coach House Press.〔
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