skin

diary sessions skew - Part II -'SKIN"
monday 4:54 pm - central ave/thomas...on my way home via the light rail -
was confronted by this guy who was wearing no shirt...only his body art...i ask what his name and what he was up to...i didn't mind talking to him....maybe he really didnt mind - i sure didn't, we were quite the pair for a few minutes. Cars rolled up and stopped at the red light..i did not look towards them - though i have a good guess they were watching us - i wonder what they thought...i mean cmon, i am here - and they are shielded safely in their cabs. cars on central avenue were watching. though for William and I, we chatted about the weather, his grocery cart, and his tattoos. i asked him where his is from..he said " i am from another planet"; "i am from New York"; i smiled and asked what he was doing here...he said he was "trying to survive" and that folks were after him...he said "you got to watch it, cause they're watching us" - i then motioned to his cart, which was filled to capacity with his life; i didn't ask beyond the strata of his affects - only if he could get something to eat or something; he asked me to help him. he told me nobody is helping him...i looked at him, raise my hand with some cash and offered; he looked at me as though i was some lost relative or something...i could see it in his eyes..they seem to be telling the story of his life...he was rather excited and joyous (there you go, laughter on Central Ave)...i could sense it (actually, i could smell it as he opened his mouth w joy) -
if the downtown terrain were removed layer by layer...we have a place where boundaries of the human emotions are so tightly bound...yet that's not how it works...a works in progress...

we are all in this together...

'skin' by sixx am is for william

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