'Wrecking Crew'
'Wrecking Crew' tells me that he is doing better these days. He has a roof over his head and even has a telephone number. He tells me that he 'ran this street' twenty years ago. When I mention that I used to panhandle and sleep down there on the weekends back then he gets animated and tells me "It's me! Ol' 'Wrecking Crew', man." I don't remember him and I am sad for it. For him it is like a family reunion. He's looking for a good time tonight and is not far gone. 'Wrecking Crew' proudly displays his beverage, "Kentucky Deluxe mixed with some fruit shit we bought to mix it with." It looks like Mountain Dew. It's a hard life. He is in a wheelchair and being pushed by a young tough with a kind but vulnerable face. There are less homeless here than twenty years ago and it makes the street feel kind of lonely. I get the feeling that 'Wrecking Crew' and I have the same nostalgic agenda on this night. You can't go home again, even when your home is a street. Home is a place in the past.
'Wrecking Crew'
'Wrecking Crew' tells me that he is doing better these days. He has a roof over his head and even has a telephone number. He tells me that he 'ran this street' twenty years ago. When I mention that I used to panhandle and sleep down there on the weekends back then he gets animated and tells me "It's me! Ol' 'Wrecking Crew', man." I don't remember him and I am sad for it. For him it is like a family reunion. He's looking for a good time tonight and is not far gone. 'Wrecking Crew' proudly displays his beverage, "Kentucky Deluxe mixed with some fruit shit we bought to mix it with." It looks like Mountain Dew. It's a hard life. He is in a wheelchair and being pushed by a young tough with a kind but vulnerable face. There are less homeless here than twenty years ago and it makes the street feel kind of lonely. I get the feeling that 'Wrecking Crew' and I have the same nostalgic agenda on this night. You can't go home again, even when your home is a street. Home is a place in the past.