I was out late at night in the castro. it was seemingly a busy wednesday evening for the bars. after stopping to get my medications at Walgreens I began walking home. then I heard this shouted:
"Let me know when you loose the rest of your teeth so you can blow me better."
I turned around to see a young man who has been living on and off in the streets for the last two or more years, ruddy faced(drunk), unwashed, half naked walking around barefoot, wearing only a harness and -barely- a pair of levi's jeans. There has now become a rather large contingent of homeless vagrant teens and young adults that have really moved into the Castro in a very demonstrable way. They are rude, arrogant, high and aggressive. And mentally ill, at least they certainly exhibit all the symptoms. There have always been homeless teens in the castro-but they were either visibly trying to better themselves or you didn't see them because they knew it looked bad if you were just sitting around all day trying to 'spange'. This new crew has obviously dropped all pretense and are just on 'fuck it all' nihilism mode.
Time to find a new place to live. I will find a job, I will move out of here. Patience Steve, patience.
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Yes, my darling. You will find work, you'll find a new place to live, etc. Patience(for both of us...), please.
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