The Streets Have Eyes by James LaFond

Author:James LaFond [LaFond, James]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

The Streets Have Eyes #8: Denizen Cane on The Bus of Heaven

© 2013 James LaFond

12/18-19/2013, 11:00 p.m. to 12:10 a.m.

I bussed it into the ghetto on the way to work last night to check on the homeless—as I am so concerned about their accommodations. One dude was sleeping in the gutter in the mouth of a steaming sewer. Another dude was curled up in a ball against a brick wall under the awning of a pawn shop. There were some drunks walking around. I got my connect—no problem.

12:10

When I stepped on the bus there was an open seat if only this one fetal drunk in overalls would sit up. Somehow, as I made him move and he mumbled, he managed to remain prone on the one seat.

There was one dude up front chatting up the bus driver, and leaning against the dash, in violation of the federal ordinance posted above their heads. Everything was normal.

Then, at Kane and Eastern, Smokey, a small middle-aged man in a bomber jacket and ski cap, stepped up with his cane in one hand, and his bedding in the other [a plastic bag full of circulars and newspapers that he covers up with]. Smokey has a dark patina rather than a complexion, from those years of unbathed nights warming his hands over a trash bin fire. Smokey was also smoking a long brown, and much sucked on, cigarette.

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