Flesh and Blood Page #6

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That f***ing train, I hate it,

'cause I literally threw

away my life under that El

just for a high.

Anyway, so I'm getting you a skateboard.

No.

Yes, you got to get out of the house.

I get out of the house.

I just don't enjoy it.

(laughs)

Yeah I, no.

Yeah.

No.

I got to see your knees

at least scraped once.

My knees have been scraped a lot of times.

Let's play handball.

- [Guillermo] No, that hurts.

- Let me teach you how to play handball.

Played it, it hurts.

No it don't.

- Yes it does.

- You wear a glove if it hurts.

I got to do something positive,

helping my beautiful son grow up.

But I can see you. (laughs)

Same hair.

You'll shape up nice.

Yeah.

I still don't see it.

You don't see it?

I don't see the resemblance.

Can you see a resemblance?

Absolutely.

Just take the nose out.

You got the same big

ass smile, big ass lips.

The hair.

You're both geniuses.

Yeah, but...

You're both full of sh*t.

I think I figured out what gives me peace.

Really?

What's that?

You guys.

It's good to know that

at least a few people

have my best intentions at heart,

and care about me to the point

where they only want to bring me joy,

regardless of what happens

to them or anybody else.

Hello?

Come on, time to get up.

Happy fun day, boys.

Come on, get up.

Come on.

Hurry up.

We're gonna have a fun day today.

My name is Cheri Honkala,

and I'm proud to announce today

that I am the first

formerly homeless mother

running for Vice President of

the United States of America.

I know what it's like

to sleep on the streets of this country,

and so did my son Mark.

We lived together in abandoned

houses, abandoned cars.

Every night in this country,

millions of children will

not have a place to call home.

They, too, will lay down in the streets,

in the cold each night in our country.

- Oh, Mark?

- Hmm?

Do you mind if I get

your help a little later?

(sirens wail)

(protesters chanting)

For those families of this city,

they take away their voice!

What the hell is wrong with you?

[Woman] You got to move back,

son, you got to move back.

(yelling)

[Man] people get right with God.

Do you get high, do you get (mumbles)

do you get wasted?

Oh, shame on you!

But this is our country,

not Trump's country!

(crowd cheers)

(dog barks)

Did you get the dog?

[Guillermo] Oh, you should

probably take this, then.

All right, let me get you.

How are you feeling right now?

Nervous but overall pretty good.

Okay.

That's a good shot.

I'll go around you.

There we go.

Talk to me about anything.

P*ssy, dick.

Uh, I don't know, whatever.

Whatever may cross your mind,

you can talk to me about it.

What's the worst thing you've ever done?

(laughs) I can't say that on film

but what I can say is I've

done a lot of bad things.

Okay.

Why do you like drugs?

Because they took me

out of myself for a few.

Because I didn't have to deal with reality

at the moment when I'm high.

At first it was beautiful, you know.

You could manage, get high

and make your problems go away.

But then it became work

because I had to come up with money

so I wouldn't be dope sick

so it wasn't no fun no more.

It became actually a job not to be sick.

So what's it like being a father?

(laughs) Nice question there.

Honestly, how does it feel?

It feels wonderful that you're my son.

I love you dearly.

You're 13, and I think I've

missed half of your life

because of me getting high.

So the only thing I can say

is that I'm real proud of you.

I love the fact that you're my son.

Love the fact that I know you're gonna do

real good in your life,

because you're real bright.

The fact that we can talk

like, you know, people.

And I don't have to, you know, lie

or come up with excuses because I'm high

and I can't come see you.

Don't get high.

Instead of getting high, go get some p*ssy.

Because that's the best drug there is.

Okay.

All right?

So do I give you a hug?

(laughs) Come here.

I love you, G.

Now say cut.

Cut.

(laughs)

(sighs) Good.

Like his advice to Guillermo

was all he needs to do is get some p*ssy.

Oh really?

Why do you have him see him?

Guillermo's dad is very sick.

I don't know, he could, you

know, he could die tomorrow.

At least he will have had some

kind of relationship with him,

or memory of him, you know? His dad has been

- Yeah, but not like that.

totally absent all these years.

Yeah, but that time with him,

with saying sh*t like

that to him, is traumatic.

And it's detrimental.

Yeah, well, you should

have interjected something.

You should have said something.

I'm saying something to you right now.

All right, is this where we get into

dissecting me as a mom?

And this is what you do all the time.

It's the same sh*t.

[Cheri] Neither of you

guys' dads ever did sh*t.

- Your dad never gave me one dollar, not one dollar.

- [Mark] But what did you do...

[Cheri] Who visited you in prison?

It was me.

[Mark] But what have you done wrong, Mom?

I was a teenager mother then.

The only thing that I knew

how to do was to hustle.

So I worked for years in different clubs

trying to figure out how to take that money

and meet the needs of my kids.

- Yeah but that was a choice

- Keep my kids alive.

that you made, you made that choice.

[Cheri] A choice?

Ain't no choice.

It was a f***ing choice.

[Cheri] Yo, listen, don't tell me

about something you don't know about.

[Mark] I know about it.

[Cheri] No you don't. You...

[Mark] You made a choice.

You could have went

and done something else.

- You've never worked in that... No.

- You weren't forced into it.

- You weren't like sold into the f***ing...

- You don't want to hear this.

You have never worked inside that industry.

- You could have chose some other job.

- [Cheri] Bullshit!

I didn't have to come home at night

and then know what the f*** you were doing.

- Mark, Mark, Mark.

- As a f***ing teenage kid.

[Cheri] Mark, Mark, Mark.

Like that sh*t was inappropriate!

- Yo.

- That sh*t f***ed me up!

[Cheri] Ay, yi, yi.

You never want to talk about the

sh*t that you did that f***ed me up.

You don't, okay, Mark, you...

Yeah, and you're doing the

same sh*t with Guillermo.

[Cheri] Yo.

You're doing the same thing to him.

Listen to me for God's sakes, you know?

We have to figure out...

[Mark] I'm not talking about,

we're talking about the

mental health of your children.

Yeah, and my kids have both been in therapy

- their whole life.

- Yes, I'm a grown man now.

Yeah, that's bullshit, Mom.

No, both of my kids been

in therapy, you know?

I been, I was therapy...

They luckily had those tools.

[Mark] You took me to f***ing therapy

when I was five years

old after my dad left.

- Yeah, and then you were in therapy many times.

- [Mark] I was in therapy for like a f***ing week,

and I went there and I drank apple juice.

If you didn't...

That's not enough, Mom.

If you didn't determine

to take those tools and to

work on your mental health,

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