joe sat by the wash tub and listened to the water. he was a wino and he heard voices in the sound of the water. when asked if he would take cocaine, he thought about it and said "I would from a fat man".
i swept the parking lots down on 6th and san pedro back in the 80's and it was bad then. It was so bad that there were no women in the area except those that were men.
I wore a hard hat to keep the adddicts and nuts from throwing bottles down at me. Back then you could call people addicts and nuts becuase that was what they were. They knew it and we knew it. Each day there was healthy amount of hypodermic needles ( seems TV was wrong....these bastards threw the needles down from the el rey hotel ) , lots of broken glass from that night train express enriched wine, cant recall the exact name and you dont keep notes.
The dead rats really stunk and they were washed back down into the ally when they could be washed down. You see the piss was thrown down from the hotel, it stained the walls when it missed the the lot, and old wino men hid under trucks, night crawlers, hid under trucks and shit and pissed where they could.
On one occassion the bosses called the cops on a man who woul not get out from under the truck, he stood up, and pissed his pants. The cops just told him get moving. so he did with a trail of piss. I washed it down, but you can never really clean this scene.
It stay with you forever
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