Streetwise (1984) - full transcript
Portrays the lives of nine desperate teenagers. Thrown too young into a seedy grown up world, these runaways and castaways survive, but just barely. Rat, the dumpster diver. Tiny, the teen prostitute. Shellie, the baby-faced blonde. DeWayne, the hustler. All old beyond their years. All underage survivors fighting for life and love on the streets of downtown Seattle.
I
Love the slide
It's just your lawn you peace and quiet nothing around you but clear blue sky
On the house there no one to tell you where to go or what to do
The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fucking world
Firstly James to me my father could get something to eat
Why not say my father man. All right, then get lost. I gotta make some money
Living downtown typical day was I get up at 12:00 take a shower get something to eat
Then three o'clock. I was on my Robin Street start robbing people until six seven o'clock
Then like don't get my drugs
Get my food
Get my boy. Probably gonna sleep with for that night. So what's up? It's person change. No. No, we get it Oh,
Party until 12:00 and then baby we turn and stuff
Dogfish live on a farm 15 dogs
Change
I
Wasn't even thinking about her winter nothing, you know, but my dad once told me if I ever got caught some pot I
Never come home cuz he'd kill me
so
when it all came down, I just said oh, well, I
Never miss my mom and dad then our my past now where I look at
Right, you're going with her what we're nowhere. This is my old lady here
Where you been living that?
This old abandoned hotel and we took all the furniture we could find in all the different rooms, but on this one room
And we just carry water up in these gallon jugs because it doesn't didn't have no water
electricity
Then we just shower down at this place called the compass on Washington Avenue
for 50 Cent's and do our laundry in the laundromat, whatever it took and I was pretty actually
You know me and Jack just started hanging out together I
Would've never even thought about catching a turn except for Jack
He showed me the lives of the trans how they run where they go
and
Jack taught us you can total main track because it sets highest they got it like a
Gravel mound and it will set higher than all the rest of the track
And then you just look north
and that's towards the north yard and then you just count three tracks over to your right and then only just jump on Eternia and
Be on our way
I
Want to be really rich
and live on a farm with bunch of horses
Which is my main best animal and have three yachts or more
And diamonds and jewels and all that stuff. So
You don't have any symptoms right now not actually but
You do have some concern that you might have a sexually transmitted disease
Another serious bit just might be to check up on us again. I don't know if
You ever had one before?
Mm-hmm, would you?
It's quite a bit I
Think it is. Very strange that older men, like little girls kiss are perverts is what they is
I mean, I like the money but I don't like them
you've been sexually active since the time that you were treated what a baby but
Have you had sex with anyone since you lips lead it important
You know just date
And the first date I turn
Was just that two Thursday's to go in there and another one on the Friday
Some dates are are nice and some of them the young ones are really cute, but I don't want to be interesting and I don't
Suffer the money, that's it
Well
when we get uh
We'll know our money
I'd take Mike's 45 because I sold my 38
And I'd go all a queer
There's like go on being the big ain't that much oh
Yeah by that stuff grabs, I think that went out
What did go I guess?
He had us walk around Mount Vernon two days looking for this queer that turning on all this propane
He's you know, he's gonna go and live in his house for day. No when he went to bed
He's gonna tie him up, you know take all his money had his law say all his propane and all this marijuana stuff
Yeah, we walked round Mount Vernon two days looking for this guy
I find too long and his friend friend that I told fuck off man me Mike got on the freeway
We hitchhiked up there buddy had fucking keys in the cops was ASU
My mom's got all my keys just a little bit
Spare some change
Watching so check. Come on, man. I'm more
Well, here's me sir. You spare a little bit change. I used to really least bring into three hundred four hundred dollars
And 400 total p30 honor and for they would be like 40 on it
Mercy's veterinary knows were charged more than you know a little kids deer
Isn't it after every 2 weeks she can get pregnant after your period every two weeks
You can get pregnant any time
During your cycle a person can even get pregnant when she's having her period it's not as likely
Because I pull the day and it is the rubber. Mm-hmm. Does he said he didn't use himself?
Off. He usually had the grades
three or four weeks
They come pretty right there
what to started in August just a maggot August 17th
so you'd only had the one in August and the one in September I
Said uh-huh
Okay, seems barely begun. She ever had parents before then
Your home 14
And how would you feel about being pregnant I
Want to babe you do that binder trick though
But if you're pregnant right now
Then it would be a pregnancy by a trick
and
What's your feeling about being pregnant if you are if a trick is the father?
I'm not getting abortion. No. No, I won't. Oh you would not get an abortion
Believe it
And tell me about that. Why don't what's your feeling about abortion?
Because it's like you're murdering somebody but I can't pronounce someone
Looks like it's a little baby inside you and you're just killing it. No, it's not fair to the baby image
Not the baby's fault. No, I mean so that would not be a choice for you
So you want put your feet up that's why these things out of it
Slide a bottom all the way down like it's falling well apartheid secret to me. Okay, that's just like that
I mean I used to turn dates and lots and lots of times notice that every day. I
Be pullin days day and night day night and it's just like I got Dutch the five times
As I hope all day said, I don't know
He sold me a gun and didn't work I gave it to this other dude to shoot you up for this
Homeboy handed it to me. I've seen the bullets in it. I said thanks for the gun. He said you ain't taking my gun
I saw mine
My mom first she went on vacation about four o'clock and wearing their left Friday which comes down
when she wakes me up just just believe in now, and I'm
Like goodbye
Okay
And she goes she goes I know that you're a prostitute and everything and I know what you're doing and stuff
And I know you got money and I don't over do you look at my purse, you know choose now
I don't mom. I am NOT. Just leave. You know, she goes fine. Thanks a lot. She goes. I'll remember this all weekend
It's all week. I'm gonna be thinking about how much you loved me or her
She'll care about me. She never knew
Where she lived she went to Eastern Washington anything
Awakened that isn't even my mom. I was adopted I'm even know who my real parents are and whether dead or alive or whoa
I'm gonna find out though when I maintain the court system and find out
I
Don't sometimes this seems like a waste of time. They didn't care enough to keep me
Why should I care enough to find out an hour? Oh
You know right now
Be rich yeah, yeah, that could be balance
My real dad, I've never known
he could be the guy that's really rich to iron Mercedes, you know, or
He could be one of these bums on the streets. I don't know
I really want to meet him for all I know you know
He could be one of these dates for now and I could have dated him for all I know
He's and he got a bus coming there's some change I love spirit
Serkis person change - me and my brother can do something neat right there. He squirted me spare change - so we can get something
Right, he's paddling
Techniques is lil on the rusty side. It's got take lessons for me, but me him can make some good money
We did once or twice
We're know in San Diego somewhere my dad's in jail
Largest Washington yet been in New York me once I left I hitchhiked there was there for Howard
Read what gels your dad King County going up there Walla Walla State Penitentiary for burglary and attempted arson
So where you been living let me before you lived in that up wherever you limit
hotel
Yeah, is this seriously these early how long you been living there?
Shit since I a month after I got here Seattle we from originally
California will put
Sacramento I
Went through there one time those bump. I don't like Sacramento. I live right on the outside of sucker
I wanted man something. He was trying to pick me by robbing for 150 dollars. Yeah
Take his car - do I hit shine? I?
Love hitch, I can not see how though because all the all going wasn't picking up its hippies stoners or fine girls
I like to find girl
I
Started doing this stuff. I never even bought a home before I got down here and then you don't taste good
She's delivered me go and she was a humdrum. So, you know, just let me kiss her parents
Just live with me and she disappeared. She went downtown with Lorna, you know Lorna and
Lorna came back up and said that you know chases a hoe now. So I so then I got really worried about it go
Oh, I gotta get her. I can't let her do that stuff
But I was too heard bad things about like who I'd slavery that she's gonna get beat up and everything. That's what scared me
So I thought you know
I gotta come down here and get her out of here was I gonna kidnap her away I come down here
I see her she was oh, yeah, it's great man
So I'm just in her going what I heard that you don't like it down here that you're gonna beat up and raped and everything
I'm making so much money and it's so easy. The money comes so easy in everything. She goes, it's great
You got to do it and then I sat there and I go
How much money do you make and she started naming off and I just thought wow
Down miss Kimberly again. Yeah, so have you decided do you want a date?
Jhoanna always be letting in bronze wears coats and shit that
Fish ain't gonna listen to him for long. It's the only break $30 watts
When I woke up
First time he goes if anybody's beats up with you and I come say be that means you got to work for me so that
He doesn't get somebody beat me up. So I got
Boys you talk about do nothing for free of a pimp
To
Their high schools and give me some fresh I
Don't know I'm confused. I don't know. Mr. Right person. I just don't know I
Know they know I'm fine
See you later
Hey
Okay, this is the honest truth with me you'll be safer happier and Richard hey c'mere
And he bribed me that you South came downtown you
Took my money
Came up to tell me he's gonna rot Sergio. Yeah. He he took a fuckin turn or
Fuckin coat hanger heated up on the gas heater who said he was gonna beat me if I didn't take off my clothes. I
Said I had taken off my clothes. We're scared
We don't mean to scare you. Just tell me the truth
She's running from it. Look at her run from it
You get beat up and some of these girls end up getting killed. What do you think? I'm a bad guy?
You know, I'm like that
Huh?
Why was it good? Just why would you even think I give will give you the audacity to even think me like that?
People get killed down here thing jail down here
I'm seeing over to get killed. I
Saw a guy get the shit kicked out by three niggers over in front of TJ's this morning and get hauled off in the ambulance
Shaking down
So no cares and not really care whatever happens happens
I should pass the word around. You're a snitch Chris just swing alone. What you gonna do about it?
And quit
Sorry, but I know trap night a fucking snitch either
Um, no, don't take a message do you say what time can you back or anything? Okay. Well, thanks anyways
I
Ain't trying to get no, but I want you to call you mad and tell you man a lot beat you up
But I want to talk to him first let him know what's going on because he's streetwise like a motherfucker
I'm gonna be downtown. You're gonna be cold eyes
You better learn the ways of the streets before you start hanging down there and do it shit like you're doing
Me Jack a real good friend
He'll treat you riding won't rip y'all, you know when your back is turning and the stab you
Well
When you get regular dumpsters, we call them rags you go there every night
You know you check all these dumpsters all these different places and you can tell because they're rags
What's been there last week?
And what was put in there last night, you know, cuz a lot of people say well shit
That shit could be a week old you can't even tell but you can because it's your rag, you know, what's your regular dumpster?
This little boys a lovebird
Young dumb to take it
Oh, is he gonna kick his ass he's gonna kick his ass
They both I
Told her I'd give her even bus fare
Willing. I don't want to see her get beat up. She's too young
What are you Bobby's team here in 15? No, tell me that
Bullshit you're talking shit
To my face in 15 you look at me you bet you a 50?
- you're gonna get you in trouble
I've talked kids into going home
13 no get you 20 I
Help a lot of people out
Ain't gotta prove myself to the show that I'm a girl I
Thought about not being around but then every guy little Dallas screwed me over anyway I
Get along with straight people too. It's just most of them think because I'm gay. I'm trying to pick up on their girlfriends
Tell you the truth. I gotta like somebody a lot to even kiss on the tails to
See, I'm my own type of person. All right, I
Protect a lot of people this bum was trying to fill in friend of Mines chest
I literally walked up to him come back and apologize to the girl because she's not public property
I got honest abs with a telephone pole or something. He could touch it there
Just the way I am. I've been like that since I've been down there because not what it did nothing for me
So I made him come back and apologize and sent him on his way. I
Just told him go on man. Get out of here. He left
She has grown up quite a bit since she's been on these streets 14 going on 21
Extra pickles - oh good extra pickle on that
When I was drinking and I used to get some bad arguments so I could see it in her mind she's thinking
Oh, no, not again
I
Don't know why I started drinking. I think just cuz of boredom half the time. I don't know
Come on two more bites Omar
See I've had Aaron all my life I've had to bring her up myself and then and then one day I suddenly get married
Now I think she likes Tom, but she just doesn't want to admit it
They're like I'm pregnant
No, oh
My fear someday, I'm gonna get a phone call or a knock on my door and it's she's not gonna be there anymore
We start living at Larry's a couple months ago because my mom my dad I got kicked out of their
Apartment and Larry offered them a place to stay. Oh
shit
You know naturally call somebody measure mother or dad
Sometimes he's an asshole
But I don't have treatment center
He's gotta stay there for two minutes Oh for crying out loud. Damn dog
Quit pissing on the bar now. Look at this mess
Open the other door
Ouch
What happened to this house I cleaned it
Specially do around here my book. Oh my god
guard
What you wanted the dog Aaron I didn't want her I
Need more makeup mom I
Want a cloudy blue? Yeah, then I wanted meadow violets. Yeah
She's always wanting there's someone in there
You know when you're a waitress, you just don't make that much
You know what these three fries the blue frame flash at Luther lavender one day she come home sit told me she made
$200 I'm not fell off my chair
Right here one at the best of bronze that cost too much. Look at the price on this - for $44.99
- oh when Erin first told me about this
She thought I would be really angry with their own hater. But I don't you're gonna need some money for the weekend. Yeah
It's just a phase. She's going to right now. No, I can't stop her from doing this cuz she's just gonna do it
Anyways, how much mine can I get?
Why just wonder so you spend it foolishly?
whatever
Take it 20 no
Ten fifteen no ten, maybe you're gonna be gone the whole weekend. No
She's very bullheaded and she kind of resented me get married and she won't Tom just
He tries to correct her
What let's go say you think I'd be getting that bake up by the end of this but or next month, huh?
Probably about the 17th the 17th of October. Yeah
Is it that the day you got buried? Oh
Yeah, how about that?
He beats up on my mom
He broke her leg before I bet your dad's gonna start bitching at you. Probably know about what?
Probably wondered for you was sleeping with Larry or not Oh Aaron
I'm not saying you did for heaven sakes
But that's what it's gonna start bitching at you about. He doesn't work. He depends on my mom a lot which is not right
I think the man should support the woman
He says she doesn't have the money and all this others shouldn't I say it's because of you because you spend her money on beer
She doesn't have time for me
Now my mom's gonna mess she can't get out of I felt really sorry for her
Be a year years gone by fast, huh?
Huh
Mom yes, don't bug me
I'm drinking
When I first round one came here to Seattle I
was tired of being at the middleman between my mom and my dad's the horse I
Told my mom when I called her about two weeks after I got her, you know, I was in trouble with the law
And she understood it. You know, she said, all right, you know, I'll see you when you're 18 and
I said, all right, you know and then about a month later I called her again. I
Said anymore. How's it going? You know I said, oh, it's awful, you know broke. He's trying to drain me
Trying to make my life miserable
She started crying a lot and I asked him me to come home and I just said mom
I gotta go and I hung up and
Then I never called her again, I never wrote her a letter or nothing
Fuck it, you know, I don't think what she wants. I'm dead whatever she wants to think but I don't wanna listen to her cry
Making me feel bad that
Building at 1420 second Avenue by the grace of God will be the new shelter that will sleep two hundred men and
15 women and two families and all we ask from you is one dollar
We don't ask for ten twenties and hundreds
But you let God move on you and you give one dollar and God will bless you for 14 years
I believe that God took then
What I do not believe in anymore
Billy Graham convicted me when he pointed his finger right at me and said God told you to turn he'll
Go to your big house and give me a big bed and I'll be with your big wife and all that there
I'm gonna go to my house and I want to pack food for tomorrow's food back. Ok with religion Ernie
I'm penny cos you're pentecost's low cost. Ok, that's what I was raised as a Pentecostal, but I don't believe this shit
We're in the hot air working us. Just how they work in. This is the first time
We're in school when I tell you bring your canned goods and give them ass
What they're doing they say bring your canned goods and give them to us then they turn around and give them back to you
We're doing something for y'all, you know, give us some money
That's how they work at us man. I could stand out here and I can say yes Lord. Thank you Jesus
Give me a dollar. You know, I can do that. Well, you could yeah, all right
I could you know, they'd probably get it all it's your privilege, you know, but see minute see all this nothing
I'm not standing here for me. See you would leave founder after you I'm standing there for you. You're standing here for me
That's right. They said nothing because you might be
Done you're wise out here man was streetwise because he'll you know what, you know
The whole situation you're not a scam if you don't everything down and talk about this brother
We need to thank you and wash me up a little bit. Yeah, cuz you needs a lot of wising
You think you gonna get rich standing out here?
What gives you the audacity to think that we gonna come off our street life into your program, right?
I don't want you in my program
Bring you in and give you a good night's sleep
And then I can wake up in the morning go downstairs and eat some Cap'n Crunch
So you cook even coffee or whatever when I can leave and come back and you leave again
I bring my girlfriend up there for one to know if you do should I stand in different place?
No, but I like your brother I like you too
There's many genders down there speedrun, that's what you're into restaurant, you know you order something
Usually they'll set you right by the cash register if you look young and like you don't have no money so they can see
But right by the cash registers right by the door, so that works out even better
There's also dumpster-diving call Shakey's Pizza, you know
You can do it right out from the restaurant at a payphone. You know, they got payphone out front
You calm up your these wise style pizzas with Canadian bacon. Yeah, yes
I'd like a large pepperoni pizza with pineapple
You tell them, you know, they ask your name and your number and you get it, too
regular crust
Richard
Three four five nine seven six -
Yes, it is
All righty, bye hang on
They call you right back, you know, and you say yeah, I ordered this business they say, alright you hung up?
Yes, this is Richard, yes I did
Thin crust with the pepperoni and pineapple. All righty. Bye
And then about an hour
I don't know what he comes to cleaning the pizzas and they set them out in the dumpster in the boxes new over there
You know, yeah, it's six or seven three pizzas
It's easy to survive without pulling tricks or dates on the street
You get two hits on every pac-man $5 a hit I
Sell it all the time man. It sells like pancakes
Yeah, me and jr. Made over a hundred something bucks something nothing his bunk man at the concert
then we wouldn't bought some good cocaine and
you
Never really see James around that much
He's always off gone somewhere, you know
Don't tell him what he's doing. I doubt if he's turning tricks, though
We do but you make sure that we do okay your responsibility to make sure you walk out of here alive
You got to be over 18 to sell blood so the kids on the streets can't sell it so they can't make money that way
but if you get a fake ID and you look at - you can go there and sell blood I
Asked he he gives me big old leftovers like this big old plate full size
No leftovers from the same night, you know, I'm Sonia
C49. Kenya is telling me
Yeah, I took
All these bitches don't
Mean that bitch I'm telling you our punching bags
Yeah, bitch
Pom-pom trim get your case beat wall with the burning goddamn gonorrhea
Ain't putting on a dress for nobody. I haven't done it since I was 16, I
Thought my nose broke five times
That both sets of my bones on my top and bottom broke
My jaw crack three time
I'll tell people now that can beat the shit out of me and they're not getting me away from down here
Calvin and Erica vendetta
Erica was yeah because of it. I hear this girl told me that they're after my ass. I got to keep it cool
Man, I wouldn't even worry about
I don't know. There are a lot of people after my asks. I'm not working anymore
For me when I'm in you wouldn't have to work
Now motherfuckers gonna fuck I'm just not going to connect just I feel like I mattered
Well, let me give you my number and you call me
They got him
You wake up in say by gospel
Oh my god, oh
There's a pen. Thank you sir if I got his paper now
Well, you gained about three inches in height since we saw you in almost a year and a half ago, I'm gain much weight
You're about the same way. They should work. I eat all the time, but I'm getting nowhere nothing
They want the words on your shirt. You think you got worms
Sure get started straighten up you spent a lot of time on the street. Yeah. What do you do down there?
Around all the girls
mmm
You got a lot of girlfriends. Yeah
Hmm. I see those tonsils and see how they look now. That's good. That's good. Take it easy
When Jeff tells Liars last
Let's see. I
Was locked up again the wind that was maybe two months ago. You guys cool last you know for two years
I have a big school. So you haven't been in school every 12, huh? No, I'm 16. You're 16
mmm, that hurt when I do this any
No feels good. Feels good. What do you think you'd like to do someday?
mom
anything interested all know you got lots of big glands in your neck you got
Chronically infected tonsils, which certainly don't help you
Growth and your nutrition any I might join them maybe the world lasts that long Riggins singing all the Marines shooting everybody
All the Marines getting shootin cut not rush there and watch the spelling. I'll borrow mr. Song. All right there that hurts, hon
Yeah. All right bad or just a little
Just a little huh? Oh
Yeah, yeah, I had a blade like that until I got busted it was a black one right there
You ain't you ain't got 50 cents today I got a jar your jar
Why don't you just walk up some guy that I asked you for 50 Cent's to catch a better place
Oh, I don't work. He's the worst one on pikes pretty is the worst one out
You'd be your buddy when you're face to face, but soon as you turn the other night
You learn how to fight one way or another well you disappear I know how to fight but I like disappeared
My mother and father got divorced when I was about a year old
My mother decided that she'd go to a foster home
About five years ago. My father says I want you to come over so I spent six months with my father
six months while nobody could find my mother a
Year went up. Nobody could find my mother. My father got tired of me and my sister. He told me to leave I
left
Hi small done
Hi, how you doing?
Nothing just Carlton's toy I'm okay with shit
Where am I none of your business you don't even know
No, call me a prostitute. Come on. I dare you to
Know it's not what I'm doing, but that's what you called me last time. I was gone
Yes, you did. I
Called to tell you I'm okay. See how you doing. And now I'm gonna hang up saying I'm okay
And I hope you have fun with your stupid-ass husband. Bye
Shelly she's a little sweet grow up the streets just enough for a girl that young I
Mean 14 years old and on the streets
I've taken care of her a little here and there made sure she's eating. She's like a little sister
I
Like women for some parties and they're sweet they're
Caring they need care
with somebody that cares and
Loves me
In return what they got our dismal loving like two or three days
I've
Made many mistakes on the street. I've made many mistakes
I have seldom done the streets before now
I guess now like I have I don't want to live on streets like you have I'm not going to either man
Are you gonna help me down my home? Hell no. Oh
Yes, I have an do myself thing. I
don't how am I dad but I'm gonna des myself -
Why do you want your hair dyed to change I
Actually to change to get away from anything
Only can they get you away from Jackson? I will considering the more dye my hair
My mom's got seven kids. She's 30 can't
Have you living out in the street, so I can't have me living here
I'm trying to get some input from you Shelli. We said anything but sarcasm, it's all I get around here
Sorry over here from Larry
It's his way of dealing with people, right?
He makes me sick
From when I was little and he was a pervert and shit when every time I remembered that
Every time I remember what he did to me what he took advantage of me and shit
I didn't when I didn't nobody doing I didn't know it until you started asking me but you wouldn't tell me down
I told you that he did when you asked me if he did a thing I said, yeah
And then when he went told him ever since then he's hated me
Yeah, we didn't do it anymore. So I still hate it for doing it to begin with
My wishes would be to have a small family
That was happy. Just my older brother and my real dad to me my mom
nobody else
Shadow asked me if weak if you found a place for me to stay a permanent place, but I stay there and I said
Yeah, I probably
Says well Patti Munchkin said you could stay with them. They needed the money for rent. I
Grew up with munchkins for a long time I ran around with you
And Patti I met her down here about three years ago beating the heck out of some old did
Because he said something wrong turn
Patti munchkin are very date. They were in my eyes made for each other
They argue if it is in all of the fair's over
There together and that's the way it is had a munchkin ER team. That's the way they work the best a
Street couple that are struggling to survive
Every person no matter how big or tough they are should always have a partner
You never want to go on the streets alone it's mistake
It's just you get lonely you get upset can't beat up
Because you never can tell if someone's gonna come up from the front. I
Start to get your attention and then they're there this other dudes gonna walk up behind him bust your fucking head
Partners are always better
After
mixing Scalise preference
Mix our mixture into threes. That's right. Yeah
loosely piling on top of head the leisure
There's so few very sunny and free of tangles
Well, I consider myself a playboy a
Boyfriend is you're obligated to one girl
I
Considered myself
Depended upon a couple of girls supporting me but as far as being a pimp now, I never pushed them out onto the street
You can't be a boyfriend and have three girlfriends that you can be a playboy a
Playboy this is what I consider myself
As Megan I know firing range Venus
See thank you. Yeah, man, I little buys us a candy
I
Could see what you're giving those little boys. I
Want to get tattooed right there to cover this mess up
Why why because it's that looks sick
You ever heard of dandy dungeon dragons
Paul you have far-out guess how much this is gonna have cost me to have it done in a tattoo right here. I
Want to get justice dragon just now my characters is my character
But now she's married again, that's why I'm not at home because I can't stand my stepdad
Nobody Sanders
Some people get multiplied with the buzzers
I got an idea that it's fantastic and then we'll make some money and then you can we'll put it in
Lee and Sons store shop, we're gonna open up our own from store. You know that like a thrift store ahead. Mm-hmm
now when I get out
since I'm a little while I want you to let me this would be I've already talked to some people about a building and they'd
Be red would look around out there. See if there's ain't good for shops out there
Yeah, I was supposed to get off this Friday
But I won't because I gotta wait for the damn parole board
If it just been at Berkeley it been the right, but it wasn't stupid arson thing
So the board wants to talk to me and like he said and everybody says, you know I've done you know
30 years. What the hell good
Is it gonna do made me do a couple more years and I've only got three years left at my max
Are you gonna sell by yourself? No, I'm in I'm in the mean tank
That's a five. It's that's that's a mean tank. It's where guys have done time and everything before what family needs doing
There's a bunch of Joker's in there two of them are yeah, he's one Stubbs. Yeah, tell myself. Yeah. Yeah
What sister couldn't have take your tonsils out. They says I'm
Always infected and stuff. So they think that's why I'm so small mister. Well, you know, that's funny. I was that way too
When you're small
So it could just be
And then they they took that mountain and about a year after that
I got almost as big as I am now, cuz I eat all the time. You're wrong in the way boy ft
So you think it's just home when you call it tonsils and adenoids? Yeah, but editor. Yeah, I read it dirty. Yeah
Yeah, how much do you smoke no, I'm cutting down maybe four cigarettes in there or five
That's good, no don't don't smoke too much cuz that's bad too
Still messing with that weed a little bit. How about anything else? Mr. Arms? Oh
No, I've been doing that on that here all you can show you here see hold on me see
What are you messing with huh? Nothing, you're a smart kid, you're a good-looking kid, you've got intelligence you've got my brain
But you're like me you're a con man wait
What do you want to be a little punk on the street?
All right
Hey, you want to be a little punk little smartass a little punk. That's all you think you are
You're gonna wind up just like I am
Look at me when I talk at you look at me
Pay attention to me that's trouble you haven't paid any attention to me. There's a guy in our tank
24 years old they just give him four life sentences
Twenty four years old
It won't be too damn many more years it to be doing that to you
They're not gonna slap your little hand and send you up to Echo Glen or some damn place. Is that what you want?
Yeah you sit now cuz you're sitting there talking to me but get your hands out your mouth let me see your fingers
Stop biting your damn nails to eat you
When you're gonna stop doing that
Alright
When are you gonna stop doing that?
You're out there a tough guy on the street man big-time tough. Look Punk as all you are can't even quit biting your fingernails
You're too goddamn little be tossed kid
I'm serious. I love you very very much. Even though I get mad and want to kill you. I love you
You're you're all I've got
and unfortunately, I've all you've got
I'm gonna make it up to you. They were all the stuff that we didn't do
You know, I
Know I have to talk rough to you sometimes Dwayne, but you know that I love you
Whole big big bunch I get out this time if I get out, I'll keep you straight and you keep me straight side a deal
Just remember you and I is all we've done
Together. Hey ain't nobody can whip us ain't nobody can do anything to us. I
Love you
Look at y'all beat up and cut up and scarred up for the drug. That's why I haven't seen you in two months
You didn't even call me. I can't get over that after I sent from you all the way from California down there stranded
You didn't even thank me. You ought to thank me now
You can call her and the key to them calls me in and Todd calls me
Love your mother. Yes
When you go show me
When you go make me proud
So that's what you should do you should stop and see mom, you know what I mean?
Because she she is the only one guy I'd I'd map to your life because you can't go nowhere. I'm letting you ask your mother
Advices and things you know that you don't want no advice right now
Why do I did knocked around and beat around you doing it? I love you Patrice. You want to go ISA?
I'm not gonna just give you my money now if you want to go eat all my food. Yes, y'all what did you eat today?
Cookies
Johnson juice you want something hot in your stomach. That's what you need
Well, if I give you some of my money what you gonna do with it
Yeah, how you gonna save it out of here
You just tell me anything. This has shut me up
Save it you got some money mom
If I think you're buying a pack of cigarettes next time I see you I will give you a dollar
Awesome weed. Yeah, you better not
You know, that's hard work money. I work for that money. You spend it wisely
When you get straight, you know where your house is
Okay, and the only way to really get straight you out stay in touch with mom because you can't straighten yourself. I
Have
Seven brothers and sisters. I lost one seven months ago from cirrhosis of the liver
she was 26 I
Loved her a lot
It made me
Start her lonely for about a month and a half people. Thought I was going crazy
Cause I'm gonna praise I just couldn't handle it
Because I hate you and I'll get you for that
In charge, I want you to know that right now I did a sergeant I'm asking you to please calm down
I'm calm will you please leave because they have quite a crowd here
Pom
Giving blood there's pain
Fine and love this pain
All you feel is the first initial name
The rest is lingering pain from when the needle pulled out
That burns well, that's the worst part of it and
How do you like it, that's nice
Honey
I'm gonna help me figure this out hold this
Right there right there
Bring it back up here
Shit boys your eyes totally not supposed to have your eyes open. Yeah. Oh my laughter
Thanks, you just wipe two right across my fucking eye God Matt wants to do you only fucking permanent I
Probably have about a hundred
kids on my caseload of
course patty is Patty and she's an
Individualist, and she'll go along with you if you're doing what she wants but she ain't gonna do a damn thing
Yeah, she didn't want to do
you know, I
Was just worried about you
But this morning, you know, we've got the man, you know, we've got job therapy
We know that was Jerry's don't understand that you can't just be walking in my house. You might get shot fires
You know, I took the chance on you wasn't shoot man
Then I did I banged on the door and I said I need a shot. Okay? Okay, so that means the rents due today, right?
No, and if you're gonna stay here
Until my giving the rest right this is the deal if you're gonna stay here you've got to go out to job therapy
You know, we've been together. We've been working to get staying together and we have we've been working together there
And I'm concerned about you. You know, I don't want you guys to have to hit the bricks again
I don't want you to have to get back into some crap that you shouldn't be involved in to pay your rent
You've got a chance to make it a good way
Okay. Now this this guy's got some ideas that can help you get a challenge
That's a better life for you then happen to be hustling on the streets or be down there
How are you gonna make it money
Most of the kids on the streets that's how they survive
They feel like if they don't do the dates that they're gonna be broke
they're gonna have to dumpster dives or to have to beg for money and that's gonna
Make them feel because they're girls like I'm no good. I'm dirty. I'm rock
I'm a scum. I'm living in this rathole, you know, no water. No electricity. No, nothing. I'm begging for money
And I guess they feel that's worse than full dates
Come on what their problem is?
Munchkins one that walks out the hole in this shit
I don't want to do it delivery's why not this because like I said Patti maybe Patty's out there
She has to have somebody with her
And when I moved in with them I said Patti I don't wanna be Helen or anything but she said, you know
It won't be as she says my skin's not gonna pin tearing up there. Do you turned a son hell?
Yeah with me and Patti do I try to tell Patti? I don't watch it
It still started off bitching at me and saying that I dismissed $100 date. Every time I said it was $100 day
When you do make money, do you give it to munchkin?
And you haven't got nothing out of it, huh
Me and Patti are both mad right now because munchkin send this out there and be sending both of us out
You get let's see. He wants a whole bunch of closes shit
Get this he hasn't pulled any dates today at all
I-40 backseat no, you don't know what I'm doing that. I'm like the shit that you think
Doesn't I walk by without even talking
Which is the simple reason that that's what I thought you again today do that kind of shit. I told you
Shut up in his damn arm, man
Well, I told her I told her I said hey, I can't handle this on my arm attack off and shit
She's not a sign. She says you ain't going nowhere. And I said yes, I am
this morning
She was talking all this shit about how she was gonna sock me if I even try to go up there and stuff. I
Mean, I was just tripping the others how the hell can these people, you know, just think they all me and shit
Nobody does you end up with the wrong people done?
It just will do you wanna know who set me up with the wrong people? Yeah a person by the name of shadow
You change too when I first ran into you you were real sweet oh
Yeah
When you ended up at Georgia's you were a real pain in the ass
Now you're even one Sibel pain in the ass because you fucking bullshitting me
You don't bullshit with me, but I keep the lunch - I don't know. Why probably because I like you
Drop that cigarette it's not dad
Non-stop
God Kid here y'all
I
Like a lot of the girls on the street tiny I like her especially she's a sweet girl
This is it go crazy or something. All right, let's just jump in. All right
The reason why I think rad is cute and the reason why I love him so much is because
He's got pretty eyes. I think they're brown or blue and the other
I've gotta go back to school some day says I need a diploma so I can get into the Air Force. I
Didn't talk to her much about her being a prostitute shina done it that often from what she told me
Now where's my kid
You know the smalls got in the unit, oh, yeah. Yeah for a while I thought maybe any other unit no Jean boys
That's my age. So one more on baby
Okay now here here's to do
I got a phone call from Kim
Yesterday and then I was in the end and I phoned Kim this morning
And cuz I need to talk to her before you get out of here
they won't tell us nothing unless we are his parents or got a piece of paper that says I'm his legal guardian, and I'm not
You understand what I'm saying? I'm not his legal guardian
I'm temporary
guardian, nope
So all I can do is just keep trying and as soon as I get a hold of her I'm
Given permission for her to come down and get you and and big court workers sign the papers so that she can get you out
of here
I'll go down there and waste some time and not find out where the fuck he's at
Jim was that new baby? She doesn't need any of these clowns, you know, you're you're in a really touchy situation there anyway
Right, you know you're living was you know, 18 year old who?
You know used to be real active on the streets or so Kings 20 how she 20 now? Okay, legally. She's not a foster parent
15 in the fucking afternoon
And I think it's really good
I think you guys are working out like a family and I think it's a good arrangement for you
But you know, I don't want you getting busted and messing that up
Okay, right now you're charged with selling pot
So as far as you staying away from downtown, I don't care. What do you stay away from downtown or not?
You know, you've got a lot of friends down there. I think that you have to use your own judgment on it. Okay?
You know the things you better not be doing downtown, you know, I mean the police everybody knows you're down here
yeah, okay, if you're dealing dope, they're gonna you know, they're gonna bust you again and if you get busted again,
Then you're not gonna get out of here until after your hearing
She'll start talking about all I want to have a kid and all this shit
She just wants to get too serious at two younger legs
She's only 14 years old. She makes it sound like she's ready to get married. Well, then don't leave I
got too
Late, oh, yeah, I gotta go get my college, you know
What does came out my best friend locked it gotta go break him out
I'm serious. I'm gonna break him up. I'm gonna go to Florida and what if you get caught
Well, I'll still be with him
In jail, I
Can't stand watching you laptops
Throw that thing out the window I'll be
I will watch
Heeey she's gonna kidnap me tonight taking on my shoes you get a new pal
Why because if you want to go ahead
Ah
Hi found it. Oh you did we got in a fight serious drunk that night
She slapping, I mean I was slapping back on her because she hit me and I hit her back the masterpiece
The next day she felt really bad
Finally one day I woke up and say hey, I'm an alcoholic. I better do something about it
I'll be back
No fuckin wall there anything go one little stair into the bedroom and you can look over the city back in hole
As a math and writing her spike his teeth do curtains
Somebody
Hey, really, I won't hurt you
Looks like her jaws broke her jaw and roping look at
Things your eyes or what anybody see what happened what you been taking I'm hoping you're sticking out
Look at your eyes for a second
You're
Stupid I'm not it wasn't my fault
Well, if you would have been in that next room hanging your fucking head out the window. Yeah. Hey guys, I'm over here
Look what you do it
Halfway out the window talking to them. Turn it over. Keep your fucking head in John you
Like bird says you can take the whole off the street, but you can't take the street off the hook
Well, I guess don't mind me I didn't get arrested you're lucky you're really liked you just gotta stay one step ahead
You left me there and that's right
The mindset, where are you going? Hey right take me with you
I would have never got caught I wouldn't be in here till Monday. I'll be gone by Monday
I don't want you to leave why can't you leave till next Sunday?
Cuz I got places to go things until next Sunday
Come on this is the last time you guys get to see me or you oh well
You missed to get fired there or not. Oh, they kicked. This one whores eyes. I
Said cheap bitch. She smacked her right in the face. No, she didn't smart she punched
Broad, it fell down jumped up just to got run all the way up the pipe run this girl
She's sort of tall. She's real skinny like you she's got real dark short hair
black hair
I'd show it to you, but you ain't getting out too even Sunday
Why why we went hey before I get out why because Monday might be inside
I'm gonna break him up on there
Don't take their cuff keys open the door takes Mike's cuffs off and off to Alaska we go
That simple maybe we'll stop through here pick you up
da baby doubt it
What
What's the matter 11 then why cry
Louder why huh? You should have figured it out by now
Well, I gotta go
Don't I at least get a hug boss
I
Found out in the morning that there had been a suicide I
Didn't know who it was and I didn't I didn't think of doing even though I knew that he was in that institution, Dwayne
hung himself
the one thing that Dwayne wanted was was a family and
He wanted to grow up as what he saw is just a regular kid
I think that he sort of had that dream of a mother and a father and the house in the country and you know
Maybe a horse or a bicycle to ride on he just wanted what every kid has a right to have. I think it's
a funeral
There was his father
There were guards prison guards because of his dad's status
three other people
All three who've worked
With Dwayne in one way or another as part of social service agencies, and that was it
So it was pretty much as his life has been it was a pretty lonely
pretty skimpy
affair
Over in our lives we are often confused and we often ask why
But it is times like these when ry becomes our strongest cry
Your girlfriend have a house or car or something have a little money in the banking job that's why I suspect all of it
Not much
Let me sir
But I'll see
My understanding Twain will be cremated and his ashes spread out on Puget Sound
Twain was us a streak hit join drifted all his life and
It it seemed better for me than just putting him out all on the ground in a box where he's gotta be there
He's free he's never been that way before
Because you're tired little teddy bear
Much for Arturo
Together No
You got
Oh
You know
Running
More than a million young people running means surviving
and surviving on the streets is the most hellish risk a runaway kid can take
With your help we can reduce this risk. We can give these kids good reasons to stop running
Call the runaway hotline and offer your help and please
Do it before the clock runs out on another young runaway
Love the slide
It's just your lawn you peace and quiet nothing around you but clear blue sky
On the house there no one to tell you where to go or what to do
The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fucking world
Firstly James to me my father could get something to eat
Why not say my father man. All right, then get lost. I gotta make some money
Living downtown typical day was I get up at 12:00 take a shower get something to eat
Then three o'clock. I was on my Robin Street start robbing people until six seven o'clock
Then like don't get my drugs
Get my food
Get my boy. Probably gonna sleep with for that night. So what's up? It's person change. No. No, we get it Oh,
Party until 12:00 and then baby we turn and stuff
Dogfish live on a farm 15 dogs
Change
I
Wasn't even thinking about her winter nothing, you know, but my dad once told me if I ever got caught some pot I
Never come home cuz he'd kill me
so
when it all came down, I just said oh, well, I
Never miss my mom and dad then our my past now where I look at
Right, you're going with her what we're nowhere. This is my old lady here
Where you been living that?
This old abandoned hotel and we took all the furniture we could find in all the different rooms, but on this one room
And we just carry water up in these gallon jugs because it doesn't didn't have no water
electricity
Then we just shower down at this place called the compass on Washington Avenue
for 50 Cent's and do our laundry in the laundromat, whatever it took and I was pretty actually
You know me and Jack just started hanging out together I
Would've never even thought about catching a turn except for Jack
He showed me the lives of the trans how they run where they go
and
Jack taught us you can total main track because it sets highest they got it like a
Gravel mound and it will set higher than all the rest of the track
And then you just look north
and that's towards the north yard and then you just count three tracks over to your right and then only just jump on Eternia and
Be on our way
I
Want to be really rich
and live on a farm with bunch of horses
Which is my main best animal and have three yachts or more
And diamonds and jewels and all that stuff. So
You don't have any symptoms right now not actually but
You do have some concern that you might have a sexually transmitted disease
Another serious bit just might be to check up on us again. I don't know if
You ever had one before?
Mm-hmm, would you?
It's quite a bit I
Think it is. Very strange that older men, like little girls kiss are perverts is what they is
I mean, I like the money but I don't like them
you've been sexually active since the time that you were treated what a baby but
Have you had sex with anyone since you lips lead it important
You know just date
And the first date I turn
Was just that two Thursday's to go in there and another one on the Friday
Some dates are are nice and some of them the young ones are really cute, but I don't want to be interesting and I don't
Suffer the money, that's it
Well
when we get uh
We'll know our money
I'd take Mike's 45 because I sold my 38
And I'd go all a queer
There's like go on being the big ain't that much oh
Yeah by that stuff grabs, I think that went out
What did go I guess?
He had us walk around Mount Vernon two days looking for this queer that turning on all this propane
He's you know, he's gonna go and live in his house for day. No when he went to bed
He's gonna tie him up, you know take all his money had his law say all his propane and all this marijuana stuff
Yeah, we walked round Mount Vernon two days looking for this guy
I find too long and his friend friend that I told fuck off man me Mike got on the freeway
We hitchhiked up there buddy had fucking keys in the cops was ASU
My mom's got all my keys just a little bit
Spare some change
Watching so check. Come on, man. I'm more
Well, here's me sir. You spare a little bit change. I used to really least bring into three hundred four hundred dollars
And 400 total p30 honor and for they would be like 40 on it
Mercy's veterinary knows were charged more than you know a little kids deer
Isn't it after every 2 weeks she can get pregnant after your period every two weeks
You can get pregnant any time
During your cycle a person can even get pregnant when she's having her period it's not as likely
Because I pull the day and it is the rubber. Mm-hmm. Does he said he didn't use himself?
Off. He usually had the grades
three or four weeks
They come pretty right there
what to started in August just a maggot August 17th
so you'd only had the one in August and the one in September I
Said uh-huh
Okay, seems barely begun. She ever had parents before then
Your home 14
And how would you feel about being pregnant I
Want to babe you do that binder trick though
But if you're pregnant right now
Then it would be a pregnancy by a trick
and
What's your feeling about being pregnant if you are if a trick is the father?
I'm not getting abortion. No. No, I won't. Oh you would not get an abortion
Believe it
And tell me about that. Why don't what's your feeling about abortion?
Because it's like you're murdering somebody but I can't pronounce someone
Looks like it's a little baby inside you and you're just killing it. No, it's not fair to the baby image
Not the baby's fault. No, I mean so that would not be a choice for you
So you want put your feet up that's why these things out of it
Slide a bottom all the way down like it's falling well apartheid secret to me. Okay, that's just like that
I mean I used to turn dates and lots and lots of times notice that every day. I
Be pullin days day and night day night and it's just like I got Dutch the five times
As I hope all day said, I don't know
He sold me a gun and didn't work I gave it to this other dude to shoot you up for this
Homeboy handed it to me. I've seen the bullets in it. I said thanks for the gun. He said you ain't taking my gun
I saw mine
My mom first she went on vacation about four o'clock and wearing their left Friday which comes down
when she wakes me up just just believe in now, and I'm
Like goodbye
Okay
And she goes she goes I know that you're a prostitute and everything and I know what you're doing and stuff
And I know you got money and I don't over do you look at my purse, you know choose now
I don't mom. I am NOT. Just leave. You know, she goes fine. Thanks a lot. She goes. I'll remember this all weekend
It's all week. I'm gonna be thinking about how much you loved me or her
She'll care about me. She never knew
Where she lived she went to Eastern Washington anything
Awakened that isn't even my mom. I was adopted I'm even know who my real parents are and whether dead or alive or whoa
I'm gonna find out though when I maintain the court system and find out
I
Don't sometimes this seems like a waste of time. They didn't care enough to keep me
Why should I care enough to find out an hour? Oh
You know right now
Be rich yeah, yeah, that could be balance
My real dad, I've never known
he could be the guy that's really rich to iron Mercedes, you know, or
He could be one of these bums on the streets. I don't know
I really want to meet him for all I know you know
He could be one of these dates for now and I could have dated him for all I know
He's and he got a bus coming there's some change I love spirit
Serkis person change - me and my brother can do something neat right there. He squirted me spare change - so we can get something
Right, he's paddling
Techniques is lil on the rusty side. It's got take lessons for me, but me him can make some good money
We did once or twice
We're know in San Diego somewhere my dad's in jail
Largest Washington yet been in New York me once I left I hitchhiked there was there for Howard
Read what gels your dad King County going up there Walla Walla State Penitentiary for burglary and attempted arson
So where you been living let me before you lived in that up wherever you limit
hotel
Yeah, is this seriously these early how long you been living there?
Shit since I a month after I got here Seattle we from originally
California will put
Sacramento I
Went through there one time those bump. I don't like Sacramento. I live right on the outside of sucker
I wanted man something. He was trying to pick me by robbing for 150 dollars. Yeah
Take his car - do I hit shine? I?
Love hitch, I can not see how though because all the all going wasn't picking up its hippies stoners or fine girls
I like to find girl
I
Started doing this stuff. I never even bought a home before I got down here and then you don't taste good
She's delivered me go and she was a humdrum. So, you know, just let me kiss her parents
Just live with me and she disappeared. She went downtown with Lorna, you know Lorna and
Lorna came back up and said that you know chases a hoe now. So I so then I got really worried about it go
Oh, I gotta get her. I can't let her do that stuff
But I was too heard bad things about like who I'd slavery that she's gonna get beat up and everything. That's what scared me
So I thought you know
I gotta come down here and get her out of here was I gonna kidnap her away I come down here
I see her she was oh, yeah, it's great man
So I'm just in her going what I heard that you don't like it down here that you're gonna beat up and raped and everything
I'm making so much money and it's so easy. The money comes so easy in everything. She goes, it's great
You got to do it and then I sat there and I go
How much money do you make and she started naming off and I just thought wow
Down miss Kimberly again. Yeah, so have you decided do you want a date?
Jhoanna always be letting in bronze wears coats and shit that
Fish ain't gonna listen to him for long. It's the only break $30 watts
When I woke up
First time he goes if anybody's beats up with you and I come say be that means you got to work for me so that
He doesn't get somebody beat me up. So I got
Boys you talk about do nothing for free of a pimp
To
Their high schools and give me some fresh I
Don't know I'm confused. I don't know. Mr. Right person. I just don't know I
Know they know I'm fine
See you later
Hey
Okay, this is the honest truth with me you'll be safer happier and Richard hey c'mere
And he bribed me that you South came downtown you
Took my money
Came up to tell me he's gonna rot Sergio. Yeah. He he took a fuckin turn or
Fuckin coat hanger heated up on the gas heater who said he was gonna beat me if I didn't take off my clothes. I
Said I had taken off my clothes. We're scared
We don't mean to scare you. Just tell me the truth
She's running from it. Look at her run from it
You get beat up and some of these girls end up getting killed. What do you think? I'm a bad guy?
You know, I'm like that
Huh?
Why was it good? Just why would you even think I give will give you the audacity to even think me like that?
People get killed down here thing jail down here
I'm seeing over to get killed. I
Saw a guy get the shit kicked out by three niggers over in front of TJ's this morning and get hauled off in the ambulance
Shaking down
So no cares and not really care whatever happens happens
I should pass the word around. You're a snitch Chris just swing alone. What you gonna do about it?
And quit
Sorry, but I know trap night a fucking snitch either
Um, no, don't take a message do you say what time can you back or anything? Okay. Well, thanks anyways
I
Ain't trying to get no, but I want you to call you mad and tell you man a lot beat you up
But I want to talk to him first let him know what's going on because he's streetwise like a motherfucker
I'm gonna be downtown. You're gonna be cold eyes
You better learn the ways of the streets before you start hanging down there and do it shit like you're doing
Me Jack a real good friend
He'll treat you riding won't rip y'all, you know when your back is turning and the stab you
Well
When you get regular dumpsters, we call them rags you go there every night
You know you check all these dumpsters all these different places and you can tell because they're rags
What's been there last week?
And what was put in there last night, you know, cuz a lot of people say well shit
That shit could be a week old you can't even tell but you can because it's your rag, you know, what's your regular dumpster?
This little boys a lovebird
Young dumb to take it
Oh, is he gonna kick his ass he's gonna kick his ass
They both I
Told her I'd give her even bus fare
Willing. I don't want to see her get beat up. She's too young
What are you Bobby's team here in 15? No, tell me that
Bullshit you're talking shit
To my face in 15 you look at me you bet you a 50?
- you're gonna get you in trouble
I've talked kids into going home
13 no get you 20 I
Help a lot of people out
Ain't gotta prove myself to the show that I'm a girl I
Thought about not being around but then every guy little Dallas screwed me over anyway I
Get along with straight people too. It's just most of them think because I'm gay. I'm trying to pick up on their girlfriends
Tell you the truth. I gotta like somebody a lot to even kiss on the tails to
See, I'm my own type of person. All right, I
Protect a lot of people this bum was trying to fill in friend of Mines chest
I literally walked up to him come back and apologize to the girl because she's not public property
I got honest abs with a telephone pole or something. He could touch it there
Just the way I am. I've been like that since I've been down there because not what it did nothing for me
So I made him come back and apologize and sent him on his way. I
Just told him go on man. Get out of here. He left
She has grown up quite a bit since she's been on these streets 14 going on 21
Extra pickles - oh good extra pickle on that
When I was drinking and I used to get some bad arguments so I could see it in her mind she's thinking
Oh, no, not again
I
Don't know why I started drinking. I think just cuz of boredom half the time. I don't know
Come on two more bites Omar
See I've had Aaron all my life I've had to bring her up myself and then and then one day I suddenly get married
Now I think she likes Tom, but she just doesn't want to admit it
They're like I'm pregnant
No, oh
My fear someday, I'm gonna get a phone call or a knock on my door and it's she's not gonna be there anymore
We start living at Larry's a couple months ago because my mom my dad I got kicked out of their
Apartment and Larry offered them a place to stay. Oh
shit
You know naturally call somebody measure mother or dad
Sometimes he's an asshole
But I don't have treatment center
He's gotta stay there for two minutes Oh for crying out loud. Damn dog
Quit pissing on the bar now. Look at this mess
Open the other door
Ouch
What happened to this house I cleaned it
Specially do around here my book. Oh my god
guard
What you wanted the dog Aaron I didn't want her I
Need more makeup mom I
Want a cloudy blue? Yeah, then I wanted meadow violets. Yeah
She's always wanting there's someone in there
You know when you're a waitress, you just don't make that much
You know what these three fries the blue frame flash at Luther lavender one day she come home sit told me she made
$200 I'm not fell off my chair
Right here one at the best of bronze that cost too much. Look at the price on this - for $44.99
- oh when Erin first told me about this
She thought I would be really angry with their own hater. But I don't you're gonna need some money for the weekend. Yeah
It's just a phase. She's going to right now. No, I can't stop her from doing this cuz she's just gonna do it
Anyways, how much mine can I get?
Why just wonder so you spend it foolishly?
whatever
Take it 20 no
Ten fifteen no ten, maybe you're gonna be gone the whole weekend. No
She's very bullheaded and she kind of resented me get married and she won't Tom just
He tries to correct her
What let's go say you think I'd be getting that bake up by the end of this but or next month, huh?
Probably about the 17th the 17th of October. Yeah
Is it that the day you got buried? Oh
Yeah, how about that?
He beats up on my mom
He broke her leg before I bet your dad's gonna start bitching at you. Probably know about what?
Probably wondered for you was sleeping with Larry or not Oh Aaron
I'm not saying you did for heaven sakes
But that's what it's gonna start bitching at you about. He doesn't work. He depends on my mom a lot which is not right
I think the man should support the woman
He says she doesn't have the money and all this others shouldn't I say it's because of you because you spend her money on beer
She doesn't have time for me
Now my mom's gonna mess she can't get out of I felt really sorry for her
Be a year years gone by fast, huh?
Huh
Mom yes, don't bug me
I'm drinking
When I first round one came here to Seattle I
was tired of being at the middleman between my mom and my dad's the horse I
Told my mom when I called her about two weeks after I got her, you know, I was in trouble with the law
And she understood it. You know, she said, all right, you know, I'll see you when you're 18 and
I said, all right, you know and then about a month later I called her again. I
Said anymore. How's it going? You know I said, oh, it's awful, you know broke. He's trying to drain me
Trying to make my life miserable
She started crying a lot and I asked him me to come home and I just said mom
I gotta go and I hung up and
Then I never called her again, I never wrote her a letter or nothing
Fuck it, you know, I don't think what she wants. I'm dead whatever she wants to think but I don't wanna listen to her cry
Making me feel bad that
Building at 1420 second Avenue by the grace of God will be the new shelter that will sleep two hundred men and
15 women and two families and all we ask from you is one dollar
We don't ask for ten twenties and hundreds
But you let God move on you and you give one dollar and God will bless you for 14 years
I believe that God took then
What I do not believe in anymore
Billy Graham convicted me when he pointed his finger right at me and said God told you to turn he'll
Go to your big house and give me a big bed and I'll be with your big wife and all that there
I'm gonna go to my house and I want to pack food for tomorrow's food back. Ok with religion Ernie
I'm penny cos you're pentecost's low cost. Ok, that's what I was raised as a Pentecostal, but I don't believe this shit
We're in the hot air working us. Just how they work in. This is the first time
We're in school when I tell you bring your canned goods and give them ass
What they're doing they say bring your canned goods and give them to us then they turn around and give them back to you
We're doing something for y'all, you know, give us some money
That's how they work at us man. I could stand out here and I can say yes Lord. Thank you Jesus
Give me a dollar. You know, I can do that. Well, you could yeah, all right
I could you know, they'd probably get it all it's your privilege, you know, but see minute see all this nothing
I'm not standing here for me. See you would leave founder after you I'm standing there for you. You're standing here for me
That's right. They said nothing because you might be
Done you're wise out here man was streetwise because he'll you know what, you know
The whole situation you're not a scam if you don't everything down and talk about this brother
We need to thank you and wash me up a little bit. Yeah, cuz you needs a lot of wising
You think you gonna get rich standing out here?
What gives you the audacity to think that we gonna come off our street life into your program, right?
I don't want you in my program
Bring you in and give you a good night's sleep
And then I can wake up in the morning go downstairs and eat some Cap'n Crunch
So you cook even coffee or whatever when I can leave and come back and you leave again
I bring my girlfriend up there for one to know if you do should I stand in different place?
No, but I like your brother I like you too
There's many genders down there speedrun, that's what you're into restaurant, you know you order something
Usually they'll set you right by the cash register if you look young and like you don't have no money so they can see
But right by the cash registers right by the door, so that works out even better
There's also dumpster-diving call Shakey's Pizza, you know
You can do it right out from the restaurant at a payphone. You know, they got payphone out front
You calm up your these wise style pizzas with Canadian bacon. Yeah, yes
I'd like a large pepperoni pizza with pineapple
You tell them, you know, they ask your name and your number and you get it, too
regular crust
Richard
Three four five nine seven six -
Yes, it is
All righty, bye hang on
They call you right back, you know, and you say yeah, I ordered this business they say, alright you hung up?
Yes, this is Richard, yes I did
Thin crust with the pepperoni and pineapple. All righty. Bye
And then about an hour
I don't know what he comes to cleaning the pizzas and they set them out in the dumpster in the boxes new over there
You know, yeah, it's six or seven three pizzas
It's easy to survive without pulling tricks or dates on the street
You get two hits on every pac-man $5 a hit I
Sell it all the time man. It sells like pancakes
Yeah, me and jr. Made over a hundred something bucks something nothing his bunk man at the concert
then we wouldn't bought some good cocaine and
you
Never really see James around that much
He's always off gone somewhere, you know
Don't tell him what he's doing. I doubt if he's turning tricks, though
We do but you make sure that we do okay your responsibility to make sure you walk out of here alive
You got to be over 18 to sell blood so the kids on the streets can't sell it so they can't make money that way
but if you get a fake ID and you look at - you can go there and sell blood I
Asked he he gives me big old leftovers like this big old plate full size
No leftovers from the same night, you know, I'm Sonia
C49. Kenya is telling me
Yeah, I took
All these bitches don't
Mean that bitch I'm telling you our punching bags
Yeah, bitch
Pom-pom trim get your case beat wall with the burning goddamn gonorrhea
Ain't putting on a dress for nobody. I haven't done it since I was 16, I
Thought my nose broke five times
That both sets of my bones on my top and bottom broke
My jaw crack three time
I'll tell people now that can beat the shit out of me and they're not getting me away from down here
Calvin and Erica vendetta
Erica was yeah because of it. I hear this girl told me that they're after my ass. I got to keep it cool
Man, I wouldn't even worry about
I don't know. There are a lot of people after my asks. I'm not working anymore
For me when I'm in you wouldn't have to work
Now motherfuckers gonna fuck I'm just not going to connect just I feel like I mattered
Well, let me give you my number and you call me
They got him
You wake up in say by gospel
Oh my god, oh
There's a pen. Thank you sir if I got his paper now
Well, you gained about three inches in height since we saw you in almost a year and a half ago, I'm gain much weight
You're about the same way. They should work. I eat all the time, but I'm getting nowhere nothing
They want the words on your shirt. You think you got worms
Sure get started straighten up you spent a lot of time on the street. Yeah. What do you do down there?
Around all the girls
mmm
You got a lot of girlfriends. Yeah
Hmm. I see those tonsils and see how they look now. That's good. That's good. Take it easy
When Jeff tells Liars last
Let's see. I
Was locked up again the wind that was maybe two months ago. You guys cool last you know for two years
I have a big school. So you haven't been in school every 12, huh? No, I'm 16. You're 16
mmm, that hurt when I do this any
No feels good. Feels good. What do you think you'd like to do someday?
mom
anything interested all know you got lots of big glands in your neck you got
Chronically infected tonsils, which certainly don't help you
Growth and your nutrition any I might join them maybe the world lasts that long Riggins singing all the Marines shooting everybody
All the Marines getting shootin cut not rush there and watch the spelling. I'll borrow mr. Song. All right there that hurts, hon
Yeah. All right bad or just a little
Just a little huh? Oh
Yeah, yeah, I had a blade like that until I got busted it was a black one right there
You ain't you ain't got 50 cents today I got a jar your jar
Why don't you just walk up some guy that I asked you for 50 Cent's to catch a better place
Oh, I don't work. He's the worst one on pikes pretty is the worst one out
You'd be your buddy when you're face to face, but soon as you turn the other night
You learn how to fight one way or another well you disappear I know how to fight but I like disappeared
My mother and father got divorced when I was about a year old
My mother decided that she'd go to a foster home
About five years ago. My father says I want you to come over so I spent six months with my father
six months while nobody could find my mother a
Year went up. Nobody could find my mother. My father got tired of me and my sister. He told me to leave I
left
Hi small done
Hi, how you doing?
Nothing just Carlton's toy I'm okay with shit
Where am I none of your business you don't even know
No, call me a prostitute. Come on. I dare you to
Know it's not what I'm doing, but that's what you called me last time. I was gone
Yes, you did. I
Called to tell you I'm okay. See how you doing. And now I'm gonna hang up saying I'm okay
And I hope you have fun with your stupid-ass husband. Bye
Shelly she's a little sweet grow up the streets just enough for a girl that young I
Mean 14 years old and on the streets
I've taken care of her a little here and there made sure she's eating. She's like a little sister
I
Like women for some parties and they're sweet they're
Caring they need care
with somebody that cares and
Loves me
In return what they got our dismal loving like two or three days
I've
Made many mistakes on the street. I've made many mistakes
I have seldom done the streets before now
I guess now like I have I don't want to live on streets like you have I'm not going to either man
Are you gonna help me down my home? Hell no. Oh
Yes, I have an do myself thing. I
don't how am I dad but I'm gonna des myself -
Why do you want your hair dyed to change I
Actually to change to get away from anything
Only can they get you away from Jackson? I will considering the more dye my hair
My mom's got seven kids. She's 30 can't
Have you living out in the street, so I can't have me living here
I'm trying to get some input from you Shelli. We said anything but sarcasm, it's all I get around here
Sorry over here from Larry
It's his way of dealing with people, right?
He makes me sick
From when I was little and he was a pervert and shit when every time I remembered that
Every time I remember what he did to me what he took advantage of me and shit
I didn't when I didn't nobody doing I didn't know it until you started asking me but you wouldn't tell me down
I told you that he did when you asked me if he did a thing I said, yeah
And then when he went told him ever since then he's hated me
Yeah, we didn't do it anymore. So I still hate it for doing it to begin with
My wishes would be to have a small family
That was happy. Just my older brother and my real dad to me my mom
nobody else
Shadow asked me if weak if you found a place for me to stay a permanent place, but I stay there and I said
Yeah, I probably
Says well Patti Munchkin said you could stay with them. They needed the money for rent. I
Grew up with munchkins for a long time I ran around with you
And Patti I met her down here about three years ago beating the heck out of some old did
Because he said something wrong turn
Patti munchkin are very date. They were in my eyes made for each other
They argue if it is in all of the fair's over
There together and that's the way it is had a munchkin ER team. That's the way they work the best a
Street couple that are struggling to survive
Every person no matter how big or tough they are should always have a partner
You never want to go on the streets alone it's mistake
It's just you get lonely you get upset can't beat up
Because you never can tell if someone's gonna come up from the front. I
Start to get your attention and then they're there this other dudes gonna walk up behind him bust your fucking head
Partners are always better
After
mixing Scalise preference
Mix our mixture into threes. That's right. Yeah
loosely piling on top of head the leisure
There's so few very sunny and free of tangles
Well, I consider myself a playboy a
Boyfriend is you're obligated to one girl
I
Considered myself
Depended upon a couple of girls supporting me but as far as being a pimp now, I never pushed them out onto the street
You can't be a boyfriend and have three girlfriends that you can be a playboy a
Playboy this is what I consider myself
As Megan I know firing range Venus
See thank you. Yeah, man, I little buys us a candy
I
Could see what you're giving those little boys. I
Want to get tattooed right there to cover this mess up
Why why because it's that looks sick
You ever heard of dandy dungeon dragons
Paul you have far-out guess how much this is gonna have cost me to have it done in a tattoo right here. I
Want to get justice dragon just now my characters is my character
But now she's married again, that's why I'm not at home because I can't stand my stepdad
Nobody Sanders
Some people get multiplied with the buzzers
I got an idea that it's fantastic and then we'll make some money and then you can we'll put it in
Lee and Sons store shop, we're gonna open up our own from store. You know that like a thrift store ahead. Mm-hmm
now when I get out
since I'm a little while I want you to let me this would be I've already talked to some people about a building and they'd
Be red would look around out there. See if there's ain't good for shops out there
Yeah, I was supposed to get off this Friday
But I won't because I gotta wait for the damn parole board
If it just been at Berkeley it been the right, but it wasn't stupid arson thing
So the board wants to talk to me and like he said and everybody says, you know I've done you know
30 years. What the hell good
Is it gonna do made me do a couple more years and I've only got three years left at my max
Are you gonna sell by yourself? No, I'm in I'm in the mean tank
That's a five. It's that's that's a mean tank. It's where guys have done time and everything before what family needs doing
There's a bunch of Joker's in there two of them are yeah, he's one Stubbs. Yeah, tell myself. Yeah. Yeah
What sister couldn't have take your tonsils out. They says I'm
Always infected and stuff. So they think that's why I'm so small mister. Well, you know, that's funny. I was that way too
When you're small
So it could just be
And then they they took that mountain and about a year after that
I got almost as big as I am now, cuz I eat all the time. You're wrong in the way boy ft
So you think it's just home when you call it tonsils and adenoids? Yeah, but editor. Yeah, I read it dirty. Yeah
Yeah, how much do you smoke no, I'm cutting down maybe four cigarettes in there or five
That's good, no don't don't smoke too much cuz that's bad too
Still messing with that weed a little bit. How about anything else? Mr. Arms? Oh
No, I've been doing that on that here all you can show you here see hold on me see
What are you messing with huh? Nothing, you're a smart kid, you're a good-looking kid, you've got intelligence you've got my brain
But you're like me you're a con man wait
What do you want to be a little punk on the street?
All right
Hey, you want to be a little punk little smartass a little punk. That's all you think you are
You're gonna wind up just like I am
Look at me when I talk at you look at me
Pay attention to me that's trouble you haven't paid any attention to me. There's a guy in our tank
24 years old they just give him four life sentences
Twenty four years old
It won't be too damn many more years it to be doing that to you
They're not gonna slap your little hand and send you up to Echo Glen or some damn place. Is that what you want?
Yeah you sit now cuz you're sitting there talking to me but get your hands out your mouth let me see your fingers
Stop biting your damn nails to eat you
When you're gonna stop doing that
Alright
When are you gonna stop doing that?
You're out there a tough guy on the street man big-time tough. Look Punk as all you are can't even quit biting your fingernails
You're too goddamn little be tossed kid
I'm serious. I love you very very much. Even though I get mad and want to kill you. I love you
You're you're all I've got
and unfortunately, I've all you've got
I'm gonna make it up to you. They were all the stuff that we didn't do
You know, I
Know I have to talk rough to you sometimes Dwayne, but you know that I love you
Whole big big bunch I get out this time if I get out, I'll keep you straight and you keep me straight side a deal
Just remember you and I is all we've done
Together. Hey ain't nobody can whip us ain't nobody can do anything to us. I
Love you
Look at y'all beat up and cut up and scarred up for the drug. That's why I haven't seen you in two months
You didn't even call me. I can't get over that after I sent from you all the way from California down there stranded
You didn't even thank me. You ought to thank me now
You can call her and the key to them calls me in and Todd calls me
Love your mother. Yes
When you go show me
When you go make me proud
So that's what you should do you should stop and see mom, you know what I mean?
Because she she is the only one guy I'd I'd map to your life because you can't go nowhere. I'm letting you ask your mother
Advices and things you know that you don't want no advice right now
Why do I did knocked around and beat around you doing it? I love you Patrice. You want to go ISA?
I'm not gonna just give you my money now if you want to go eat all my food. Yes, y'all what did you eat today?
Cookies
Johnson juice you want something hot in your stomach. That's what you need
Well, if I give you some of my money what you gonna do with it
Yeah, how you gonna save it out of here
You just tell me anything. This has shut me up
Save it you got some money mom
If I think you're buying a pack of cigarettes next time I see you I will give you a dollar
Awesome weed. Yeah, you better not
You know, that's hard work money. I work for that money. You spend it wisely
When you get straight, you know where your house is
Okay, and the only way to really get straight you out stay in touch with mom because you can't straighten yourself. I
Have
Seven brothers and sisters. I lost one seven months ago from cirrhosis of the liver
she was 26 I
Loved her a lot
It made me
Start her lonely for about a month and a half people. Thought I was going crazy
Cause I'm gonna praise I just couldn't handle it
Because I hate you and I'll get you for that
In charge, I want you to know that right now I did a sergeant I'm asking you to please calm down
I'm calm will you please leave because they have quite a crowd here
Pom
Giving blood there's pain
Fine and love this pain
All you feel is the first initial name
The rest is lingering pain from when the needle pulled out
That burns well, that's the worst part of it and
How do you like it, that's nice
Honey
I'm gonna help me figure this out hold this
Right there right there
Bring it back up here
Shit boys your eyes totally not supposed to have your eyes open. Yeah. Oh my laughter
Thanks, you just wipe two right across my fucking eye God Matt wants to do you only fucking permanent I
Probably have about a hundred
kids on my caseload of
course patty is Patty and she's an
Individualist, and she'll go along with you if you're doing what she wants but she ain't gonna do a damn thing
Yeah, she didn't want to do
you know, I
Was just worried about you
But this morning, you know, we've got the man, you know, we've got job therapy
We know that was Jerry's don't understand that you can't just be walking in my house. You might get shot fires
You know, I took the chance on you wasn't shoot man
Then I did I banged on the door and I said I need a shot. Okay? Okay, so that means the rents due today, right?
No, and if you're gonna stay here
Until my giving the rest right this is the deal if you're gonna stay here you've got to go out to job therapy
You know, we've been together. We've been working to get staying together and we have we've been working together there
And I'm concerned about you. You know, I don't want you guys to have to hit the bricks again
I don't want you to have to get back into some crap that you shouldn't be involved in to pay your rent
You've got a chance to make it a good way
Okay. Now this this guy's got some ideas that can help you get a challenge
That's a better life for you then happen to be hustling on the streets or be down there
How are you gonna make it money
Most of the kids on the streets that's how they survive
They feel like if they don't do the dates that they're gonna be broke
they're gonna have to dumpster dives or to have to beg for money and that's gonna
Make them feel because they're girls like I'm no good. I'm dirty. I'm rock
I'm a scum. I'm living in this rathole, you know, no water. No electricity. No, nothing. I'm begging for money
And I guess they feel that's worse than full dates
Come on what their problem is?
Munchkins one that walks out the hole in this shit
I don't want to do it delivery's why not this because like I said Patti maybe Patty's out there
She has to have somebody with her
And when I moved in with them I said Patti I don't wanna be Helen or anything but she said, you know
It won't be as she says my skin's not gonna pin tearing up there. Do you turned a son hell?
Yeah with me and Patti do I try to tell Patti? I don't watch it
It still started off bitching at me and saying that I dismissed $100 date. Every time I said it was $100 day
When you do make money, do you give it to munchkin?
And you haven't got nothing out of it, huh
Me and Patti are both mad right now because munchkin send this out there and be sending both of us out
You get let's see. He wants a whole bunch of closes shit
Get this he hasn't pulled any dates today at all
I-40 backseat no, you don't know what I'm doing that. I'm like the shit that you think
Doesn't I walk by without even talking
Which is the simple reason that that's what I thought you again today do that kind of shit. I told you
Shut up in his damn arm, man
Well, I told her I told her I said hey, I can't handle this on my arm attack off and shit
She's not a sign. She says you ain't going nowhere. And I said yes, I am
this morning
She was talking all this shit about how she was gonna sock me if I even try to go up there and stuff. I
Mean, I was just tripping the others how the hell can these people, you know, just think they all me and shit
Nobody does you end up with the wrong people done?
It just will do you wanna know who set me up with the wrong people? Yeah a person by the name of shadow
You change too when I first ran into you you were real sweet oh
Yeah
When you ended up at Georgia's you were a real pain in the ass
Now you're even one Sibel pain in the ass because you fucking bullshitting me
You don't bullshit with me, but I keep the lunch - I don't know. Why probably because I like you
Drop that cigarette it's not dad
Non-stop
God Kid here y'all
I
Like a lot of the girls on the street tiny I like her especially she's a sweet girl
This is it go crazy or something. All right, let's just jump in. All right
The reason why I think rad is cute and the reason why I love him so much is because
He's got pretty eyes. I think they're brown or blue and the other
I've gotta go back to school some day says I need a diploma so I can get into the Air Force. I
Didn't talk to her much about her being a prostitute shina done it that often from what she told me
Now where's my kid
You know the smalls got in the unit, oh, yeah. Yeah for a while I thought maybe any other unit no Jean boys
That's my age. So one more on baby
Okay now here here's to do
I got a phone call from Kim
Yesterday and then I was in the end and I phoned Kim this morning
And cuz I need to talk to her before you get out of here
they won't tell us nothing unless we are his parents or got a piece of paper that says I'm his legal guardian, and I'm not
You understand what I'm saying? I'm not his legal guardian
I'm temporary
guardian, nope
So all I can do is just keep trying and as soon as I get a hold of her I'm
Given permission for her to come down and get you and and big court workers sign the papers so that she can get you out
of here
I'll go down there and waste some time and not find out where the fuck he's at
Jim was that new baby? She doesn't need any of these clowns, you know, you're you're in a really touchy situation there anyway
Right, you know you're living was you know, 18 year old who?
You know used to be real active on the streets or so Kings 20 how she 20 now? Okay, legally. She's not a foster parent
15 in the fucking afternoon
And I think it's really good
I think you guys are working out like a family and I think it's a good arrangement for you
But you know, I don't want you getting busted and messing that up
Okay, right now you're charged with selling pot
So as far as you staying away from downtown, I don't care. What do you stay away from downtown or not?
You know, you've got a lot of friends down there. I think that you have to use your own judgment on it. Okay?
You know the things you better not be doing downtown, you know, I mean the police everybody knows you're down here
yeah, okay, if you're dealing dope, they're gonna you know, they're gonna bust you again and if you get busted again,
Then you're not gonna get out of here until after your hearing
She'll start talking about all I want to have a kid and all this shit
She just wants to get too serious at two younger legs
She's only 14 years old. She makes it sound like she's ready to get married. Well, then don't leave I
got too
Late, oh, yeah, I gotta go get my college, you know
What does came out my best friend locked it gotta go break him out
I'm serious. I'm gonna break him up. I'm gonna go to Florida and what if you get caught
Well, I'll still be with him
In jail, I
Can't stand watching you laptops
Throw that thing out the window I'll be
I will watch
Heeey she's gonna kidnap me tonight taking on my shoes you get a new pal
Why because if you want to go ahead
Ah
Hi found it. Oh you did we got in a fight serious drunk that night
She slapping, I mean I was slapping back on her because she hit me and I hit her back the masterpiece
The next day she felt really bad
Finally one day I woke up and say hey, I'm an alcoholic. I better do something about it
I'll be back
No fuckin wall there anything go one little stair into the bedroom and you can look over the city back in hole
As a math and writing her spike his teeth do curtains
Somebody
Hey, really, I won't hurt you
Looks like her jaws broke her jaw and roping look at
Things your eyes or what anybody see what happened what you been taking I'm hoping you're sticking out
Look at your eyes for a second
You're
Stupid I'm not it wasn't my fault
Well, if you would have been in that next room hanging your fucking head out the window. Yeah. Hey guys, I'm over here
Look what you do it
Halfway out the window talking to them. Turn it over. Keep your fucking head in John you
Like bird says you can take the whole off the street, but you can't take the street off the hook
Well, I guess don't mind me I didn't get arrested you're lucky you're really liked you just gotta stay one step ahead
You left me there and that's right
The mindset, where are you going? Hey right take me with you
I would have never got caught I wouldn't be in here till Monday. I'll be gone by Monday
I don't want you to leave why can't you leave till next Sunday?
Cuz I got places to go things until next Sunday
Come on this is the last time you guys get to see me or you oh well
You missed to get fired there or not. Oh, they kicked. This one whores eyes. I
Said cheap bitch. She smacked her right in the face. No, she didn't smart she punched
Broad, it fell down jumped up just to got run all the way up the pipe run this girl
She's sort of tall. She's real skinny like you she's got real dark short hair
black hair
I'd show it to you, but you ain't getting out too even Sunday
Why why we went hey before I get out why because Monday might be inside
I'm gonna break him up on there
Don't take their cuff keys open the door takes Mike's cuffs off and off to Alaska we go
That simple maybe we'll stop through here pick you up
da baby doubt it
What
What's the matter 11 then why cry
Louder why huh? You should have figured it out by now
Well, I gotta go
Don't I at least get a hug boss
I
Found out in the morning that there had been a suicide I
Didn't know who it was and I didn't I didn't think of doing even though I knew that he was in that institution, Dwayne
hung himself
the one thing that Dwayne wanted was was a family and
He wanted to grow up as what he saw is just a regular kid
I think that he sort of had that dream of a mother and a father and the house in the country and you know
Maybe a horse or a bicycle to ride on he just wanted what every kid has a right to have. I think it's
a funeral
There was his father
There were guards prison guards because of his dad's status
three other people
All three who've worked
With Dwayne in one way or another as part of social service agencies, and that was it
So it was pretty much as his life has been it was a pretty lonely
pretty skimpy
affair
Over in our lives we are often confused and we often ask why
But it is times like these when ry becomes our strongest cry
Your girlfriend have a house or car or something have a little money in the banking job that's why I suspect all of it
Not much
Let me sir
But I'll see
My understanding Twain will be cremated and his ashes spread out on Puget Sound
Twain was us a streak hit join drifted all his life and
It it seemed better for me than just putting him out all on the ground in a box where he's gotta be there
He's free he's never been that way before
Because you're tired little teddy bear
Much for Arturo
Together No
You got
Oh
You know
Running
More than a million young people running means surviving
and surviving on the streets is the most hellish risk a runaway kid can take
With your help we can reduce this risk. We can give these kids good reasons to stop running
Call the runaway hotline and offer your help and please
Do it before the clock runs out on another young runaway