The Dirty Needle Treatment Page 3
By ADGere
He was fully engaged in a conversation. Talking to his friend as
though they were about to get into trouble and he was advising him
on the many different angles to take in this endeavor. He was a man
with a vast array of the Queens English and street slang in his arsenal
and vocabulary, and I immediately thought that maybe this man at one
time or recently had taken one too many drug hits, not enough or was
a War Veteran that had fell through the crack of our political floor. I
am sure he didn’t realize he was wearing the wrong color socks or
that he had missed a few days of showering as you could see the
multi-colored stains in his shirts and trousers, as I am also sure this
conversation he was having with his imaginary friend was more
important than either one of those two or more things we all value in
today’s society. You see in this eye opening sight I was seeing, I was
thinking to myself that as easily as I am looking at this man a bit
sideways in his actions, he or someone else could be or could have
been looking at me in the exact same light up and down. It was
almost scary to think about how thin that invisible line is in going a
bit too far or coming up a little short, and how one thing in your life,
can make it into someone else’s when you start honestly reflecting
on whose life you are now living. I remember hating the fact as a
child that I couldn’t stay out very late, or how my family didn’t let me
do the many things the cool kids did, and that I was missing out on
the important things in life. I am now wondering if this man that
has all of my attention right now, was brought up in the same
manner as me, or if he had the structure to teach him wrong or
right as a child. I am wondering if he had aspirations to be more
than just a playground speaker to a crowd of birds and hide and
seek playing children, or what had happened to de-rail him on that
path or if this is the life he had always wanted to live. You know in
even walking down the street now, I hear and see many people
out there asking for change or begging for pennies from
strangers, and wonder, why are they only asking for pennies
when a decent meal cost much more. I understand that pennies
do add up and it’s a numbers game in panhandling, but what they
may not understand is that while they are broke and begging,
that is a much better place than being in debt and working to try
to get out. If most street corner hustlers understood that 95% of
all of us are a few paychecks away from fighting them for that spot
on the street corner, and how in making whatever amount of non-
declared tax paying money they get, they should be investing it in
something more than their hustle. But then again, maybe the lack
of knowledge in knowing how is why they are on that corner, and
why many are walking by, donating what they feel they can spare in
their hand or cup, or looking through them like a store front
window.
By ADGere
He was fully engaged in a conversation. Talking to his friend as
though they were about to get into trouble and he was advising him
on the many different angles to take in this endeavor. He was a man
with a vast array of the Queens English and street slang in his arsenal
and vocabulary, and I immediately thought that maybe this man at one
time or recently had taken one too many drug hits, not enough or was
a War Veteran that had fell through the crack of our political floor. I
am sure he didn’t realize he was wearing the wrong color socks or
that he had missed a few days of showering as you could see the
multi-colored stains in his shirts and trousers, as I am also sure this
conversation he was having with his imaginary friend was more
important than either one of those two or more things we all value in
today’s society. You see in this eye opening sight I was seeing, I was
thinking to myself that as easily as I am looking at this man a bit
sideways in his actions, he or someone else could be or could have
been looking at me in the exact same light up and down. It was
almost scary to think about how thin that invisible line is in going a
bit too far or coming up a little short, and how one thing in your life,
can make it into someone else’s when you start honestly reflecting
on whose life you are now living. I remember hating the fact as a
child that I couldn’t stay out very late, or how my family didn’t let me
do the many things the cool kids did, and that I was missing out on
the important things in life. I am now wondering if this man that
has all of my attention right now, was brought up in the same
manner as me, or if he had the structure to teach him wrong or
right as a child. I am wondering if he had aspirations to be more
than just a playground speaker to a crowd of birds and hide and
seek playing children, or what had happened to de-rail him on that
path or if this is the life he had always wanted to live. You know in
even walking down the street now, I hear and see many people
out there asking for change or begging for pennies from
strangers, and wonder, why are they only asking for pennies
when a decent meal cost much more. I understand that pennies
do add up and it’s a numbers game in panhandling, but what they
may not understand is that while they are broke and begging,
that is a much better place than being in debt and working to try
to get out. If most street corner hustlers understood that 95% of
all of us are a few paychecks away from fighting them for that spot
on the street corner, and how in making whatever amount of non-
declared tax paying money they get, they should be investing it in
something more than their hustle. But then again, maybe the lack
of knowledge in knowing how is why they are on that corner, and
why many are walking by, donating what they feel they can spare in
their hand or cup, or looking through them like a store front
window.
Written By: Anthony Douglas Gere
Music Provided By: SEMusic
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Any unauthorized usage and or its likeness
is prohibited by law.
Music Provided By: SEMusic
Artistry Selected By: Main Ad Centre
All Material is protected by law under the
licensing of mcwhorter management
marketing manufacturing 2005
Any unauthorized usage and or its likeness
is prohibited by law.
