Dark Days Page #2

Plus I got a couple of books.

You know? Hey, I'm gonna get paid, brother.

You know how us homeless guys do it.

We got to make a dollar.

This my motherfuckin' van here.

That's right. That's my van.

That's right.

That's a bad motherf***er too.

Four-wheel drive. That's right.

This is my motherfuckin'

station wagon. That's right.

If you notice, they the biggest ones,

and there go they motherfuckin' kids.

That's right.

Eeny, meeny and f***in' miney.

You understand what I'm sayin'?

And the reason why I'm saying this,

because each one of them f***in' carts

contain something.

And what's that something? Money.

That's like they say - mo' money,

mo' money, mo' money, mo' money...

and mo' motherfuckin' money.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Free enterprises.

What peoples throw away,

other peoples can use.

And by them can use it,

I get paid for it because I find it.

And half of the time, they be

in perfect working condition.

You know? Be just like new.

You know?

But down here, man- You be surprised

the stuff that I be findin'...

and I be sellin', getting top dollar for,

you know?

- What sort of things?

- Like VCRs, color televisions.

Little portable televisions

like this.

You know what I'm sayin'?

I found that.

Heaters like this.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Now, I don't sell everything.

Stuff that I can use, I keep.

But stuff that I just-

I can't use, I sell.

You know?

Everything you got

that you paid for, I can-

Nine time out of 10,

I will go out there and find it,

and it be in perfect working condition.

And I sells it. You know?

That's the name of the game -

hustling.

I'm a hustler, bro. I get paid.

What are you doing?

I'm putting this sign.

There's no- no crack.

Because they be knockin' on my house

sometimes, and they-

and they want to borrow a stem.

And I don't smoke crack no more.

It took- You know-

It- The crack f***ed me up, man.

The crack got me down here.

Well, crack helped me

get down here.

And then- Now I stopped.

You know? And it took me

a f***in' long time to realize...

that that sh*t wasn't, you know-

That wasn't it. That wasn't me.

So I don't want 'em in my house.

Because if I see it around me,

every time- every time-

and I let people smoke in my house -

then I'm gonna want to get the urge.

It's bad enough that sometimes-

I stopped crack already for a long time,

for more than three years now.

And sometimes I wake up

with the urge.

And I haven't done it

for more than three years,

and sometimes I still wake up

with the urge to smoke it, but I fight it.

And then I'm gonna have these people

knockin' on my house...

talkin' about if I got a stem

or they could go inside and smoke.

You know, that sh*t's gonna

f*** me all up again.

So I said, "Well, let me go ahead

and put a sign".

So that way, these a**holes

could read it...

and don't knock.

I do like you do sometime.

Heat it up a little bit.

Because if you don't-

Ain't no use in wastin' it.

You know?

Just heat it up a little bit.

That's doin' it.

Okay, uh, this is one

of the things I, uh, keep-

to keep myself a little safer than

what, uh, supposed to be down here.

But I usually set up this trap with

these pans and everything over here.

Simply, uh, put a pan like that.

Put a little pencil underneath there...

so, uh, it'll roll if somebody does come by.

Put it like that, make sure it's on there.

Come over here and tie it

to the other side underneath.

So that way, you know,

if they even got a flashlight,

they can't really see

in the dark down here.

They can't really see.

And, uh, I tie it to over here.

Not very tight, but, uh,

whatever movement you give it

from up there-

So, like, when you walk by it, you know,

when you trip the wire-

You can see that at nighttime, you know,

but people that don't really know

what's goin' on, you know,

and they're just looking around,

looking to find something...

or steal something or whatever, you know-

When you walk by it, you know,

you trip the trap.

Make all that noise.

Damn. Y'all still here?

Hey, y'all must want

to hang out with me or somethin'.

Yeah.

Man! Y'all think you can keep up?

Come on.

'Cause I'm gettin' ready to get paid

about right now.

I ain't tryin' to hear it.

I'm gettin' ready to go out

and make me some money.

I bet you I come back with $10.

I'm gonna get paid.

Ain't no doubt about it.

Eighty percent of the

population down here is crackheads.

And that might be an understatement.

Might be a little more than that.

It's really bad, you know,

because they smoke this sh*t

and they get so hooked up on it,

they just lose sight of reality.

They don't take care of theirself.

Half of them don't wash their ass.

You know, and they're always

on some bullshit...

where they always think

that somebody's out to

get 'em and stuff like that.

It's really f***ed up, you know?

I've seen guys sell coats right

off their back in the middle of winter,

when it's 20 degrees outside,

just to support a drug habit.

I don't see how people can let

something- something do that do them,

take control of their life like that.

Myself, I can't go out like that.

It was on New Year's.

I was sitting in the room with the-

with my little stepdaughter.

I was sittin' in the room and sh*t,

and then they call me over

to the room. -Mm-hmm.

And they told me,

"You wanna get high?"

You know?

"You want some crack?"

I said, "No. I tried that sh*t.

That sh*t don't do nothin' to me".

So they said, "Well, try this".

- Yeah.

- You know?

So what they did was

that they put res-

You know, they cook it up

and they put res,

and then they put crack

on top of the res. -Sh*t. Yeah.

So I didn't know anything

about that sh*t.

And when I smoked that sh*t, that sh*t

f***in' rocked my f***in' legs, man.

And my sh*t is like-

You know, I like to O.D.

- I like to almost O.D. on drugs.

- Yeah.

I like to go to the highest.

Man, I loved it.

I loved it. -Wow.

And I kept smoking,

kept smoking.

But I never got to get back to that high,

that first high. -That first high, yeah.

I never got it.

And I wasted

so much money, and- and-

You know,

I made a mess of myself.

Well, you see what mess

I'm into now. -Wow.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Because I wanted that high.

Man, you know,

my wife kicked me out.

She really f***in'- She had my

f***in' clothes packed, bro. -Wow.

Swear to God, man. She had

my f***in' clothes packed, man.

- Had enough, man.

- 'Cause she scared.

'Cause she told me,

"Either the drugs or me".

And I kept saying her, but I kept

f***in' goin' back to the drugs.

One day when I went home, man,

my clothes was all packed, man.

You know, today is

a f***ed-up day and sh*t, man.

'Cause this Dumpster is empty.

And I ain't seein' sh*t in here.

This sh*t used to be stacked

up to the top with garbage.

I used to be walkin' around the edge

of this sh*t. Nothin' but garbage.

I'd spend about 45 minutes trying to

go through all of this bullshit in here.

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