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

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