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- I love to fly.

It's just you're alone.

You have peace and quiet.

Nothing around you but clear blue sky.

No one to hassle you.

No one to tell you where to go or what to do.

The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to

the fucking world.

- Spare some change, ma'am,

so me and my father can get something to eat?

-No, I don't, son.

-All right.

Why not say you're my father, man?

- No.

All right, then get lost.

I got to make some money.

- Living downtown, a typical day was I'd get up at

12, take a shower, get something to eat,

then three o'clock, I was on my robbing streak,

start robbing people until six, seven o'clock.

-Spare some change, sir?

- Then I go get my drugs,

get my food.

Get my-- whoever I gonna sleep with for that night.

-Wassup, wassup?

-Not much.

-Spare some change?

-Hell, no.

-Let me get a kiss.

-Hell, no.

-Oh, what a life.

Sorry.

- Party until 12.

Everybody would turn in and stuff.

-Look at that bleach blond.

- What?

Dogs?

Does she live on a farm, or what?

15 dogs?

-Sir, you wouldn't be able to spare a little bit of change?

Not at all, huh?

You know you're a fucking dick?

- I wasn't even thinking about running away or nothing,

but my dad once told me, if I ever got caught selling pot,

never come home 'cause he'd kill me.

So when it all came down, I just said,

"Oh, well."

- I never miss my mom and dad.

They're just part of my past now the way I look at it.

-Rat, you going with her?

-What?

Where?

-You going with her?

-Who her?

This is my old lady here.

Why?

-Where you be livin' at?

-I be living at the ♪Y-M-C-A♪.

- There's this old abandoned hotel,

and we took all the furniture we could find in all the different

rooms and put it all into this one room.

And we'd just carry water up in these gallon jugs 'cause it

didn't have no water or electricity.

And we'd just shower down at this place called the Compass on

Washington Avenue for 50 cents, and do our laundry in the

laundromat and whatever it took.

You know, it was pretty easy actually.

-Smash, bang, crash 'em up.

- And then me and Jack just started hanging out

together.

I never would have even thought about catching the train,

except for Jack.

He showed me the ways of the trains: how they run,

where they go.

And Jack taught us you can tell the main track because it's set

highest.

They got a gravel mound, and it will set higher than all the

rest of the track.

And then you just look north, and that's toward the north

yard.

Then you just count three tracks over to your right.

And then we'd just jump on a train and be on our way.

- I want to be really rich and live on a farm with a

bunch of horses, which is my main best animal and have three

yachts or more and diamonds and jewels and all that stuff.

- So you don't have any symptoms right

now?

-I don't think so.

- But you do have some concern that you might

have a sexually transmitted disease?

-Nothing serious.

It might just be trichomoniasis again.

I don't know.

- Uh-huh.

Ever have one before?

-Mm-hm.

- What did you have?

-I've had chlamydia, trichomoniasis,

and gonorrhea.

- That's quite a bit.

- I figure it's very strange that older men like

little girls 'cause they're perverts is what they is.

I mean, I like the money, but I don't like them.

- You've been sexually active since the time

you were treated?

- What do you mean by that?

- Good question.

Have you had sex with anyone since you were treated in

Portland?

-No, just dates.

The first date I turned was about two Thursdays ago.

Then I turned another one on a Friday.

- Some dates are nice.

And some of them, the young ones are really cute,

but I don't want to be interested in them,

'cept for the money, that's it.

- When we'd get real low on money,

I'd take Mike's .45, because I'd sold my .38,

and I'd go roll a queer.

-Tastes like Columbian to me.

-Ain't that bud that's going around,

that's for sure.

-Oh, no way.

You've got to buy that stuff in grams.

I think it went out.

- What did?

- Oh, I guess not.

You know Alan and that guy he was running around with?

He had us walking around Mount Vernon for two days looking for

this queer that turned him onto all this procaine.

We was gonna live in his house for a day.

And then when he went to bed we was gonna tie him up and take

all his money he had in his wall safe: all this procaine and all

this marijuana stuff he had.

We walked around Mount Vernon for two days looking for this

guy.

I finally told Alan and his friend,

man, I told him, "Fuck off, man."

Me and Mike got on the freeway and hitchhiked all the way up to

Bellingham.

-That's when you had all those fucking keys and the cops was

asking you--

-Yeah!

Whatever happened to that Burlington Northern key?

-My mom's got all my keys.

-Just a little bit?

Spare some change?

-You know I can't spare no change.

-C'mon, man.

I'm poor.

'Scuse me, sir.

Can you spare a little bit of change?

- I used to least bring in $300, $400.

For a blowjob, it would be 30 on up,

and for a lay, it would be, like,

40 on up.

Most of these veterinarian hoes would charge more than,

you know, us little kids do.

-Isn't it after every two weeks you can get pregnant,

after your period, every two weeks?

- You can get pregnant any time during your

cycle.

A person can even get pregnant when she's having her period.

It's not as likely.

-Okay, because I pulled a date and didn't use a rubber,

because he said he didn't use them.

- How often do you usually have your

periods?

- Three or four weeks.

- Uh, huh, they come pretty regular?

- Well, I just started in August.

- Just in August?

- August 17.

- So you only had the one in August and the

one in September?

Uh-huh, okay, so you've barely begun.

Did you ever have periods before then?

- Uh-uh.

- You're how old?

- 14.

- And how would you feel about being

pregnant?

-I want a baby.

- You do?

-But not by a new trick, though.

- But if you're pregnant right now then

it would be a pregnancy by a trick.

And what's your feeling about being pregnant,

if you are, if a trick is the father?

-Well I'm not getting an abortion.

- You might.

-No, I won't.

- Oh, you would not get an abortion.

-I don't believe in it.

- Tell me about that.

What's your feeling about abortion?

-It's like you're murdering somebody.

Murd-- I can't pronounce the word.

But it's like it's a little baby inside you,

and you're just killing it.

And it's not fair to the baby.

I mean it's not the baby fault, you know what I mean?

- So that would not be a choice for you?

-Uh-uh.

So you want to put your feet up?

I'll slide these things down a little bit...

This one's stuck.

Okay.

Slide your bottom all the way down.

- My blanket's falling.

-A little bit farther 'til you can feel me.

Okay, that's good.

Just like that.

- I used to turn dates lot and lots of times.

Every day I'd be pulling dates day and night,

day and night.

Then it's just like I got busted five times, so I don't pull

dates that I don't know.

-Everybody say I did something when I was,

but I know not to fuck around.

-He sold me a gun, and it didn't work.

- Who sold you a gun?

-I gave it to this other dude to shoot,

just blew up in his hands.

-Hey, you wanna buy a knife off me.

I got two little buck knives and a pick sticker.

-Homeboy, hand it to me.

I seen the bullets in it.

I said, "Thanks for the gun."

He said, "You ain't taking my gun."

I said, "Ah, come on."

-My mom, when first she went on vacation,

about four o'clock in the morning,

they left Friday.

She comes down, and she wakes me up.

She goes, "We're leaving now."

And I go, "Yeah, yeah.

It's four o'clock in the morning.

Bye, you know."

And she goes, "I know that you're a prostitute and

everything, and I know what you've doing and stuff,

and I know that you've got money."

And I jumped up and said, "Did you look in my purse,

you know?"

And she goes, "No."

And I go, "Mom, I am not.

Just leave, you know."

She goes, "Fine.

Thanks a lot."

She goes, "I'll remember this.

All week, I'm going to be thinking about how much you love

me and everything."

I don't care.

She doesn't care about me.

She never did.

She doesn't.

Oh, well.

-My momma cares about me a lot.

-Where is she?

Where she live?

-She went to Eastern Washington, I think,

for the weekend.

-That isn't even really my mom.

I was adopted.

I don't even know who my real parents are.

I don't know if they're dead or alive or what.

I'm going to find out though.

When I'm 18, I'm going through the court system and

find out, but I don't know.

Sometimes it seems like a waste of time.

If they didn't care enough to keep me,

why should I care enough to find out who they are?

-Well, you know, they could be rich though right now.

You know what I'm saying, rich, real rich.

Or they could be bums.

- My real dad, I've never known.

He could be the guy that's really rich,

driving a Mercedes.

Or he could be one of these bums on the street.

I don't know.

I really want to meet him.

For all I knew, he could be one of these dates rolling around.

I could have dated him for all I know.

-What?

♪"Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant plays from boombox♪

- Sir, come here.

Where's that fresh dude with the gun?

-Uh, he's in jail.

He got busted.

-I meant-- I'm gonna spare some change here.

I love sparing change, man.

- All right, Let's go.

You hit people on that side.

I'll hit 'em on this side.

- All right.

-Ma'am, you wouldn't be willing to spare a little change,

would you please?

-'Scuse me, sir.

Could you spare some change for me and my little brother,

so we can get something to eat?

- Where's your brother?

- Right there.

He-- he spare changing too, so we can get some food.

-That's for you--

-How you doing?

-This is for your brother.

-Thank you very much.

- Rat, his panhandling technique is

a little on the rusty side.

He gotta take lessons from me, but me and him can make some

good money.

We did once or twice.

- All right.

- Your mom is where?

- I don't know.

San Diego somewhere.

My dad is in jail.

Life's a bitch, ain't it?

-Are you originally here from Seattle?

-Nope.

-Where you from?

-Port Orchard.

Well, Washington, yeah.

Been in New York once.

I left.

I hitchhiked there-- was there for an hour and left.

-What jail is your dad in?

-King County, going up to Walla Walla State Penitentiary for

burglary and attempted arson.

So where you been living, before you lived in that-- wherever you

live at?

- In that hotel?

-Yeah.

Is it seriously deserted?

How long you been living there?

- Shit, since a month after I got here to Seattle.

-Where're you from originally?

- California.

-What part?

- Sacramento.

-I went through there one time.

It was bunk.

- I don't like Sacramento.

I lived right on the outside of Sacramento.

-I went in there and some faggot was tryin' to pick me up,

but I robbed him for $150.

- Really?

-Yep.

- Take his car too?

-Hell no.

I hitchhike.

I love hitchhikin'.

Not in Seattle though, 'cause the only ones that'll pick you

up is hippies, stoners, or fine girls.

I like the fine girls to pick me up.

-I just started doing this stuff.

I never even thought of whoring before I got down here.

Then-- you know Tracy?

-Uh-huh.

-She used to live with me when she was a homegirl.

She used to live with me because her parents kicked her out.

Then she disappeared.

She went downtown with Lorna.

You know Lorna?

-Mm-hm.

-Lorna came back and said, "You know,

Tracy's a ho now."

So then I got really worried about her.

I go, "Oh, I gotta go get her.

I can't let her do that stuff."

'Cause I always heard bad things about,

like, white slavery, that she's gonna get beat up and

everything.

That's what scared me.

So I thought, you know, I gotta come down and get her out of

there, whether I gotta kidnap her or what.

I come down here, and I see her, and she goes,

"Oh, yeah, it's great, man."

So I'm just sittin' there going, "What?

I heard that you don't like it down here,

that you're getting beat up, and raped,

and everything."

She said, "I'm making so much money,

and it's so easy.

The money comes so easy and everything."

She goes, "It's great.

You gotta do it."

And I sat there, and I go, "Huh, how much money do you make?"

and she started naming off, and I just thought,

"Wow!

I think I'd better.

You know?"

Hi, Dan.

This is Kimberly again.

Yeah, so have you decided: do you want a date tonight?

-Juan always be lettin' those broads wear his coats and shit.

That bitch ain't gonna listen to him for long.

She only breaks $30 wops.

-Floyd hit me so goddamn hard,

man, when I woke up, man, it was dark.

I had to ask people around me what had happened.

-First time, he goes, "If anybody comes to beat you up,

and I come and save you, that means you gotta work for me."

-Who said that?

-I hope he doesn't get somebody to beat me up,

so I gotta work for him.

-What you talkin' bout?

I don't do nothin' for free.

I'm a pimp.

-He'll kill you.

He'll kill you.

He'll ass-fuck you, fuck you in the ear,

or anything.

But--

-Who?

-I'm serious: Don't fuck with Patrice.

-Who?

-I don't know about all that, but...

I know you're making a serious mistake.

-I'm gonna go out to those high schools and get me some fresh...

-He shoots up.

He's a drug fiend.

-Well, what do you want to do?

Who do you want to be with?

-I don't know.

I'm confused.

I don't know who's the right person.

I just don't know.

-I know they know I'm fine.

See you later...

babe!

-Look I'll tell you the truth, okay,

and this is the honest truth: with me you'll be safer,

happier, and richer.

-Hey, come here, eh!

Michelle!

Girlfriend!

-He raped me last year when I first came downtown.

-He raped you?

He raped me too, and he my money too.

Up in that hotel, he came up there and tell me he was gonna

rob this dude.

Oh, man...

-He took a fucking-- coat-hanger and heated it up on the gas

heater and said he was gonna beat me if I didn't take off my

clothes.

I said, "I ain't takin' off my clothes.

-We're scaring her.

It's the honest truth.

-We don't mean to scare you.

We're just telling you the truth.

-She's running from me.

Look at her run from me.

-You get beat up and some of these girls end up gettin'

killed.

-What you think I'm a bad guy?

Is that why wanna do something like that--

-No!

-Huh?

Why would you even think-- what would give you the audacity to

even think of me like that?

-People get killed out here.

They go to jail down here.

Everything happens down here, and none of it's good.

-I haven't seen nobody get killed.

-I saw a guy get the shit get kicked out of him by three

niggers over in front of TJ's this morning and get hauled off

in the ambulance.

He got the shit kicked out of him because he pulled a big old

steak knife out on him.

You missed that one, but it was just this morning.

-Who cares?

I don't really care.

Whatever happens happens.

- I should pass the word around: you're a snitch.

- Chris, just leave me alone.

-What you gonna do about it?

Huh?

-I'm gonna quit.

- Snitch!

-Sorry, but I ain't no tramp, and I ain't a fucking snitch

either!

- Say it to my face!

-I'm getting pissed.

- Um, no, don't take a message.

Um, did he say what time he would be back or anything?

Okay, well, thanks anyways.

Bye.

There's nothing happening!

-I ain't tryin' to get in nobody's business.

-I want you to call your man and tell your man I want to beat you

up, but I want to talk to him first,

to let him know what's goin' on.

'Cause he's streetwise like a motherfucker.

If you wanna be downtown, you gotta be cool.

You better learn the ways of the streets before you start hangin'

down there and doin' shit like you're doin'.

-We got five suspects, and he was one of 'em.

- Me and Jack are real good friends.

He'll treat you right.

He won't rip you off.

You know, when your back is turned,

he ain't gonna stab you.

- Shit, what is all this shit?

- I don't know, c'mon.

- You want a jacket, a leather jacket?

- It's full of grape jelly,

man.

- It's the Chinese dumpster!

- When you get regular dumpsters,

we call 'em regs.

You go there every night.

You check all these dumpsters, all these different places,

and you can tell, because they're regs, what's been there

last week and what was put in there that night.

'Cause alot of people say, "Well,

shit, that shit could be a week old and you can't even tell,"

but you can because it's your reg,

you know, it's your regular dumpster.

-Look at this.

-Oh, I think I hit the jackpot.

Jesus Christ!

-This little boy is a love bird.

- Young, dumb, and full of cum.

-Uh, you fool!

- Oh, is he gonna kick his ass?

He's gonna kick his ass.

They both are.

-I told her I'd even give her bus fare.

-Really?

-I don't want to see her get beat up.

She's too young.

What are you?

-I'm 15.

-You ain't even 15.

Don't tell me that.

You ain't 15--

- next year--

-Bullshit.

Bullshit.

You're talking shit.

How come you can't say it to my face?

You ain't 15.

Look at me.

You ain't 15.

-That's good.

-That's good.

-She ain't 15.

She gonna get you in trouble.

- I've talked kids into going home.

-They say 13 will get you, uh, 20!

- I help a lot of people out.

-13 years old!

- I ain't got to prove myself to show that I'm a girl.

I've thought about not being a lesbian,

but then every guy I've ever been with has screwed me over

anyway.

I get along with straight people too.

Just, most of them think that because I'm gay that I'm trying

to pick up on their girlfriends.

To tell you the truth, I got to like somebody a lot to even kiss

'em, to tell you the truth.

See, I'm my own type of person, I am.

I protect a lot of people.

This bum was trying to feel on this friend of mine's chest.

I literally walked up and made him come back and apologize to

the girl because she's not public property.

I could understand if it was a telephone pole or something,

he could touch it then.

It's just the way I am.

I've been like that since I've been down here 'cause nobody did

nothin' for me.

So, I made him come back and apologize and sent him on his

way.

I just told him, 'Go on, man, get out of here.'

He left.

- She has grown up quite a bit since she's been on these

streets.

She's 14 going on 21.

-Extra pickles too, mom, please.

-Put extra pickle on that.

- Oh, when I was drinkin',

Erin and I used to get in some bad arguments.

See, I could see it in her mind, she's thinkin',

"Oh no, not again."

-I don't like mustard or ketchup.

It's gross.

Mmm!

Thank you, mom.

- I don't know why I started drinkin'.

Just cause of boredom half the time.

I don't know.

-Too much juice!

-C'mon, two more bites.

-One more.

-Uh-uh.

-I don't like the bread.

- See, I've had Erin all my life.

I've had to bring her up myself and then-- and then one day,

I suddenly get married, and I think she likes Tom,

but she just doesn't want to admit it.

-Feel like I'm pregnant.

-Oh, goodness.

-Don't you have no whipping cream?

-No.

- My fear is that someday I'm going to get a phone

call or a knock on my door and it's-- and she's not going to be

there anymore.

-Hi, babies.

Hi.

- We started living at Larry's a couple months ago

because my mom and dad had got kicked out of their apartment,

and Larry offered them a place to stay.

- Ow, shit.

- Naturally you call somebody who marries your mother

a dad.

- Don't fall.

- Sometimes he's an asshole,

but he's in the treatment center.

He's going to stay there for two months.

- Oh, for crying out loud.

Damn, dog.

-Quit pissin' on the floor now.

Look at this mess.

Open the other door.

- Oh crying out-- damn that dog.

She left her out.

-What happened to this house?

I cleaned it.

Oh, I'm going to spray some deodorant around here.

-Oh, my book.

-Spray some right guard.

- You wanted the dog, Erin.

I didn't want her.

- I need more makeup, mom.

I want a cloudy blue.

-Yeah.

-And I want meadow violets.

-Yeah.

- She's always wanting this and wanting that.

Now when you're a waitress, you just don't make that much.

-I want these three frosts: the blue ,

country lavender.

- One day she come home, and she told me she made $200.

I nearly fell off my chair.

- he best of bronze.

-That costs too much.

Look at the price on that.

-Two for $4.99.

-Oh, two, oh.

- When Erin first told me about this,

she thought I would be really angry with her and hate her,

but I don't.

- You going to need some money for the weekend?

- Yeah.

- It's just a phase she's going through right now.

I can't stop her from doing this 'cause she's just going to do it

anyway.

-How much money can I get?

- Why?

-Just wondering.

- So you can spend it foolishly?

-Whatever.

Can I get 20?

- No.

- 10, 15?

- No.

- 10?

- Maybe.

-You gonna be gone the whole weekend.

-No.

- I'm not gonna spend it on no dope.

- She's very bullheaded.

She kinda resented me getting married.

She and Tom-- he tries to correct her.

-Ugh.

- What?

-I was gonna say, you think I'd be getting that makeup by

the end of this month or next month?

- Probably about the 17th.

- The 17th?

- Of October, yeah.

-Isn't that the day you got married?

- Oh yeah!

How 'bout that?

- He beats up on my mom.

He broke her leg before.

-I betcha Dad's gonna start bitchin' at you,

probably.

- No.

'Bout what?

-Probably wondering if you sleepin' with Larry or not.

- Oh, Erin!

-I'm not saying you did.

- For heaven's sakes.

-That's what he's goin' to start bitchin' at you about.

- He doesn't work.

He depends on my mom a lot, which is not right.

I think a man should support the woman.

He says, "She doesn't have the money" and all this other shit,

and I say, "It's because of you.

Because you spend her money on beer,

and she doesn't have time for me."

Now my mom's in a mess she can't get out of.

I feel really sorry for her.

- It'll be a year.

Year has gone by fast, huh?

Huh?

Mom?

- Yes.

Don't bug me.

I'm drinking.

- When I first ran away and came here to Seattle,

I was tired of being the middleman between my mom and my

dad's divorce.

I told my mom when I called her about two weeks after I got

here, you know, that I was in trouble with the law,

and she understood it, you know.

She said, "All right, I'll see you when you're 18."

And I said, 'All right."

And then about a month later, I called her again and I said,

"Hey Mom, how's it going?"

And she said, "It's awful.

I'm broke.

He's trying to drain me, trying to make my life miserable."

And she started crying a lot, asking me to come home,

and I just said, "Mom, I gotta go," and I hung up on her.

- Sir, you wouldn't have a dime,

would you?

I need to finish my laundry.

- Then I never called her again.

I never wrote her a letter or nothing.

-I need to finish my laundry.

I need one more dime.

-Here you go, son.

-Thanks a lot.

Have a good day.

- Fuck it, you know?

Let her think what she wants.

I'm dead.

Whatever she wants to think, but I don't want to listen to her

cry, making me feel bad.

-That building at 1420 Second Avenue,

by the grace of God, will be the new shelter that will sleep 200

men and 15 women and two families.

And all we ask from you is one dollar.

We don't ask for tens, 20s, and hundreds,

but you let God move on you and you give one dollar,

and God will bless you.

For 14 years I believed that God was dead,

but I do not believe that anymore.

Billy Graham convicted me when he pointed his finger right at

me and said, "God wants you to serve him!"

-When you leave here whatchu gonna do?

You gonna go home.

Right, brother?

-Sure am.

-Yeah, you're gonna go home, and you're gonna go into your big

house, and get into your big bed,

and sleep with your big wife, and all that there,

brother.

-I'm gonna go to my house and I'm gonna pack food for

tomorrow's food bank.

-Okay, what religion are you?

-I'm Pentecostal.

-You're Pentecostal?

That's what I was raised as a Pentecostal,

but I don't believe that shit.

You want to know how they're working us?

This is how they working us.

-This is the first time...

-Remember once a year in school,

when they'd tell you "Bring your canned goods and give

'em to us?"

That's what they're doing.

They say "Bring your canned goods and give 'em to us."

Then they turn around and give them back to you.

-And then they say, "We're doing something for y'all.

Give us some money.

We're doing something for y'all."

That's how they're working us, man.

I could stand out here and say, "Yes,

Lord.

Thank you, Jesus.

Gimme a dollar."

I could do that.

-Well, you could.

-Yeah, right, I could, and probably get a dollar.

-It's your privilege.

-But you see, man, see all this is nothing.

-But I'm not standing here for me.

See, you would be standing there for you.

-Who you standing here for?

-I'm standing there for you.

-You standing here for me?

-That's right.

- Ain't that nothing!

- 'Cause you might be hungry this winter.

- You ain't give me a dime.

We're wise out here, man.

We're streetwise because--

-I'm telling you--

-You know, the-- the whole situation is everybody scammin'.

You're scammin'.

-You and I are gonna have to talk down and talk about this.

-Brother, we do that too.

-Maybe you can wise me up a little bit.

-Yeah, 'cause you need a lot of wisin'--

- If you think you're going to get rich standing out

here.

What gives you the audacity to think that we gonna come off our

street life into your program, right?

-I don't want you in my program.

-Ah, just a second ago you said--

-All I want to do-- all I want to do is just bring you in and

give you a good night's sleep.

- And then I can wake up in the morning,

go downstairs, and eat some Captain Crunch?

-Cookies and coffee or whatever we got.

-And I can leave and come back again?

-Then you can leave again.

-Can I bring my girlfriend there if I want to?

-No.

If you do, she'll have to stay in a different place.

-No, brother.

It don't work like that.

-Yeah, it works that way.

No, but I like you, brother.

- I like you too.

What's your name?

- Tom Robinson.

- Let me have a card.

Can I have a card?

- Okay.

- There's many different scams.

There's eat and run.

That's where you go into a restaurant.

You know, you order something.

Usually, they'll set you right by the cash register if you look

young and like you don't have no money so they can see you.

But right by the cash register is right by the door,

so that works out even better.

There's also dumpster diving.

You call Shakeys' Pizza.

You can do it right out in front of the restaurant at a payphone.

They got a payphone out front.

You call 'em up and order these Hawaiian-style pizzas with

Canadian bacon, you know.

-Yes, I'd like a large pepperoni pizza with pineapple on it.

- They ask your name and your number.

You give it to 'em.

-Uh, regular crust.

Richard.

345-9762.

Yes, it is.

All righty, bye bye.

- You hang up.

They call you right back, you know.

You say, "Yeah, I ordered this, this,

and this," and they say "Alright," and you hang up.

-Yes, this is Richard.

Yes, I did.

Thin-crust with pepperoni and pineapple.

All righty, bye bye.

- And then in about an hour,

you know, nobody comes to claim the pizza,

and they set 'em out in the dumpster in the boxes.

And you go over there, and you got six or seven free pizzas.

It's easy to survive without pulling tricks or dates on the

streets.

-You get two hits out of every pack,

man.

Five dollars a hit.

I sell it all the time, man.

Sells like pancakes.

Hell yeah.

Me and junior made over a hundred and

something bucks selling nothing but bunk at a concert.

Then we went and bought some good cocaine and psshook.

- You never really see James around that much.

He's always off going somewhere, you know.

Won't tell anyone what he's doing.

I doubt he's turning tricks, though.

-The first one you do, the last two we do.

But you make sure that we do them,

okay?

It's your responsibility to make sure that you walk out of here

alive.

Okay, hold a fist for me.

- You gotta be over 18 to sell blood,

so the kids on the street can't sell it,

so they can't make money that way.

But if you get a fake ID and you look 18,

you can go there and sell blood.

-I ask Steve.

He gives me big old leftovers like this.

Big old plateful that's this high and shit.

-Leftovers.

-I could give you a big old foot full of something right now.

-No, leftovers from the same night,

you know, like lasagna and shit.

-49th and Kenyon.

He was telling me your friends--

-No, my friends.

I said, "Remember that address for me."

-Oh, okay.

-Hey, back off.

-Donna!

-Back up.

-Give me your money, boy.

Give me my money.

- Give you your money?

- Yeah, give me the scummy money when I take it from

you.

- Donna!

- How much money you think I took of yours?

- Whatever you got in your pocket's mine.

- Uh, let me see.

- Crap!

- What was that?

- We just playing.

-If you're a goddamn woman, why don't you act like one?

-Fuck you.

Fuck you.

-Don't you know how?

-Fuck you!

-Don't you know how to act like a woman?

-I am a woman!

Yeah!

-Well, then act like one!

-I don't have to act like all these bitches down here,

hell no!

-I'm not talking about acting like a bitch!

I'm talking about acting like a woman,

Lulu!

You don't do that!

-Well, fuck you!

You ain't my man!

You don't tell me shit!

-And I wouldn't be your man even if you liked men!

-You can't tell me shit!

I tell you right now--

-Bitch, I tell you all kinds of things!

-You can't tell me nothing!

-Bitch, I'm telling you all kinds of things!

-Fuck you, punk!

Yeah, punk!

-Bitch!

-Punk!

-Ho!

-Punk!

-Tramp!

-Get your K.C.!

The one with the burning goddamn gonorrhea!

- I ain't putting on a dress for nobody.

I haven't done it since I was 16.

I've had my nose broke five times,

and I've had both sets of my eye bones on top and bottom broke.

I've had my jaw cracked three times.

I'll tell people now, they can beat the shit out of me,

but they're not getting me away from down here.

-Calvin and Erica been down here?

-Erica was, yeah.

-'Cause this girl told me they're after my ass.

I gotta keep it cool.

-Man, I wouldn't even worry about them.

-I don't know.

There are a lot of people after my ass 'cause I'm not working

anymore.

So I don't know.

-Well, be with me and you wouldn't have to work.

- No.

-I'm serious.

-No.

-No motherfucker's gonna fuck with you.

-No, I'm just not going to come down here anymore.

I just-- I was just coming down here today.

-Then let me get your phone number,

so I can call you, so we can go out for pizza or somethin'.

-I don't have a phone right now.

-Well, let me give you my number and you can call me.

-OK, whatever.

-Anybody got a pen?

I don't got no pen.

Anybody got a pen?

Sir, anybody got a pen?

Nobody got a pen.

Fuck.

There's a pen, thank you, sir.

Anybody got a piece of paper now?

-Whoa!

- Well, you gained about three inches in height

since we saw you almost a year and a half ago.

You haven't gained much weight.

You're about the same weight as you were.

-I eat all the time, but I don't gain no weight or nothin'.

I think there's a worm inside me or somethin'.

-Think you got worms, huh?

-I dunno.

I want to get it checked out.

-Sure.

Can you sort of straighten up?

Do you spend a lot of time on the streets?

-Yup.

-What do you do down there?

-Panhandle.

Just hang around.

Hug all the girls and stuff.

-Mm.

You got a lot of girlfriends?

-Yup.

-Mm.

Let's see those tonsils and see how they look now.

That's good.

Take it easy.

When did you have tonsillitis last?

-Um, let's see.

When I was locked up in Echo Glen.

That was maybe two months ago.

- Did you go to school last year?

-Nope.

For two years I haven't been to school.

- So you haven't been to school since you were

12?

-No.

I'm 16.

- You're 16 now?

-Yep.

-Does it hurt when I do this?

-Nope.

It feels good.

- Feels good, huh?

What do you think you'd like to do someday?

-I dunno.

- Anything interest you at all?

-Nope.

-You got lots of big glands in your neck.

You got chronically infected tonsils,

which certainly don't help your growth and your nutrition any.

-I might join the Navy if the world lasts that long.

Reagan's sending all them Marines,

shootin' everybody.

All them Marines get to shootin',

cuttin' out Russia, and Russia's probably gonna bomb us or

somethin'.

Ow, right there.

-That hurts, huh?

-Yeah.

-That hurt bad or just a little?

-Just a little.

-Just a little, huh?

-Ow, right there it hurts.

Oh, yeah.

- Yeah, I had a blade like that till I got busted.

It was that black one right there.

-You ain't got 50 cents?

-Not today.

I got a job.

You want a job?

-Nah.

Why don't you just walk up to some guy and ask him for 50

cents to catch the bus?

-'Cause I don't have a face like yours.

-Aw, it'll work.

He's the worst one on Pike Street.

He's the worst one out of them all.

He'll be your buddy when you're face to face.

As soon as you turn around, you got a knife in your back.

It ain't worth it.

- You learn how to fight,

one way or another, or you disappear.

I know how to fight, but I like disappearing.

My mother and father got a divorce when I was about a year

old.

My mother decided I should go to a foster home.

About five years ago, my father said,

"I want you to come over."

So, I spent six months with my father.

Six months were up, nobody could find my mother.

A year went up, nobody could find my mother.

My father got tired of me and my sister.

He told me to leave.

I left.

-Hi.

Is mom there?

Hi.

Howya doin'?

Nothing, just called to tell you I'm okay and shit.

Where am I?

None of your business.

You don't even know.

No, call me a prostitute.

Come on, I dare you to.

No, that's not what I'm doing, but that's what you called me

last time I was gone.

Yes, you did.

I called to tell you I'm okay, to see how you were doin',

and now I'm going to hang up saying I'm okay.

And I hope you have fun with your stupid-ass husband.

Bye.

Ooh, she pisses me off.

- Shellie's a real sweet girl.

The streets is nothing for a girl that young.

I mean, 14 years old and on the streets.

I've taken care of her a little here and there,

made sure she's eaten.

She's like a little sister.

I like women for the simple reason they're sweet,

they're caring, they need care.

-Somebody that cares and loves me.

In return I'll give them everything I've got--

-I've made many mistakes--

-You've never lived on the streets.

-I've made many mistakes.

I have so lived on the streets before.

-Not like this.

Not like I have.

-I don't want to live on the streets like you have.

I'm not going to either, man.

-Are you going to help me dye my hair?

-Hell no.

I can't dye hair, man--

-I'll do it myself then.

I don't know how I'm going to do it,

but I'm going to do it myself then.

-Why do you want your hair dyed?

To change?

-Not actually to change, to get away from everything because--

-That ain't gonna get you away from jack-shit,

honey.

-It will, considering I'm gonna dye my hair.

- My mom's got seven kids.

She's 32.

-I can't have you livin' out on the streets.

-So?

I can't have me livin' here.

-I'm trying to get some input from you,

Shellie, besides-- anything but sarcasm.

- That's all I get around here.

That's all I ever hear from Larry.

- That's his way of dealing with people.

-Right.

He makes me sick.

from when I was little and he was a pervert and shit.

When every time I remember that, every time I remember what he

did to me, when he took advantage of me and shit--

- I didn't know, you wouldn't tell me--

-I didn't know it until you started asking me!

-But you wouldn't tell me then.

- I told you that he did.

When you asked me if he did a certain thing,

I said, "Yeah."

And then when you went and told him, ever since then he's hated

me.

-Yeah, but he didn't do it anymore.

- So?

I still hate him for doing it to begin with.

- My wishes would be to have a small family that was

happy.

Just my older brother, my real dad,

and me, and my mom.

Nobody else.

Shadow asked me if he found a place for me to stay,

a permanent place, would I stay there,

and I said, "Yeah, probably."

He said, "Well, Patti and Munchkin say you can stay with

them.

They need the money for rent."

- I grew up with Munchkin.

For a long time, I ran around with him.

And Patti, I met her down here about three years ago beatin'

the heck out of some old dude 'cause he said somethin' wrong

to her.

Patti and Munchkin are very-- they were,

in my eyes, made for each other.

They argue, but doesn't all love affairs argue?

-Get him, honey.

- They're together, and that's the way it is.

Patti and Munchkin are a team.

That's the way they work the best.

A street couple that are struggling to survive.

- Every person, no matter how big or tough they

are, should always have a partner.

You never want to go on the streets alone.

It's a mistake.

It's just you'll get lonely, you'll get upset,

you'll get beat up.

Because you never can tell if someone's gonna come up from the

front of you and start to get your attention,

and then-- this other dude is gonna walk up behind you and

bust your fuckin' head.

Partners are always better.

- Immediately after mixing, squeeze preference.

Mix all mixture until thoroughly saturated hair.

Loosely pile hair on top of head.

Leaves your hair silky, , shiny,

and free of tangles.

- I consider myself a playboy.

A boyfriend is you're obligated to one girl.

-Pile on head lightly.

- I considered myself dependent upon a couple of girls

supporting me.

But as far as being a pimp, no, I never pushed them out onto the

streets.

You can't be a boyfriend and have three girlfriends,

but you can be a playboy.

A playboy is what I consider myself.

- Standby alert, death star approaching.

Estimated time to firing range: 15 minutes.

-Let me see, Shadow.

-See?

-Thank you.

-You know--

-Hi, little boys.

Want some candy?

-God damn.

I can just see what you're giving those little boys.

I'm going to get a tattoo right there to cover this mess up.

-Why?

-Why?

Because that looks sick.

Hold on.

That right there is what I'm going to have done.

-Really?

- You ever heard of D&D, Dungeons and Dragons?

You have?

Far out.

Guess how much this is gonna have to cost me to have done as

a tattoo right here?

-How much?

-50.

-Me and Patty want to get dragons on each side of our

arms.

-I want to get just this dragon.

It's one of my characters.

It's my character.

- Shut up.

Son of a fucking bitch.

- I don't know what's my problem...

But now she's married again.

That's why I'm not at home 'cause I can't stand my

stepdad.

-Nobody can stand their stepdads.

-Some people get along fine with them.

My first stepdad was okay.

-I got an idea that's fantastic.

We'll make some money and we'll put it in,

uh, Lee & Sons Thrift Shop.

We're gonna open up our own store,

like that thrift store I had.

-Mm-hm.

- Now when I get out, as soon as I'm out a little while,

I want you to come with me 'cause I've already talked to

some people about a building in maybe Redland.

Look around out there.

See if there's any good thrift shops out there.

-All right.

-I was supposed to get out this Friday,

but I won't because I've got to wait for the damn parole board.

If it'd just been that burglary it'd be all right,

but it was that stupid arson thing,

so the board wants to talk to me.

And like he said and everybody says,

you know, I've done 30 years.

What the hell good is it going to do to make me do a couple

more years.

I've only got three years left on my max.

- Are you in a cell by yourself?

-No, I'm in the, uh, mean tank.

It's A5.

That's the mean tank.

That's for guys who've done time and everything before.

- For a felony and stuff?

-Yeah.

- Is a bunch of the jokers in there?

-Two of 'em are, yeah.

- Is one Stubbs?

-Yeah.

- Tell him I said, "Hi."

-Yeah, yeah.

What's this?

You're gonna have to take your tonsils out?

-They say it's always infected and stuff,

so I don't know.

They think that's why I'm so small and stuff.

- Well, you know that's funny.

I was that way, too.

-Were you small like this and stuff?

- Yep, yep.

-So it could just be...

- And then they took them out,

and about a year after that I got almost as big as I am now.

-'Cause I eat all the time and stuff,

but I don't gain no weight.

- Yeah, I know.

-So what-- so you think it's just,

um, whadaya call it?

- Tonsils and adenoids.

-Yeah, but--

- Hed-- heditary-- hereditary--

-Yeah, yeah.

-How much are you smoking?

- I'm cutting down to maybe four cigarettes a day.

Four or five.

-All right, that's good.

Don't smoke too much 'cause that's bad too.

- All right, hold on.

-Still messin' with that weed?

- Huh?

-Still messin' with that weed?

- A little.

-How 'bout anything else?

- Nope.

-Let me see your arms.

- My arms?

Why?

-Undo your sleeve.

- Naw, I haven't been doing none of that.

Here I'll even show you.

See?

Nothin'.

-Okay.

What you messin' with?

- Huh?

-What you messin' with?

- Nothing.

-You're a smart kid.

You're a good-looking kid.

You've got intelligence.

You've got my brain.

But you're like me.

You're a con man, Dewayne.

Whadaya wanna be?

A little punk on the street?

Huh, eh?

You wanna be a little punk?

A little smart-ass little punk.

That's all you think you are.

You're going to wind up just like I am.

Look at me when I talk at you.

Look at me.

Pay attention to me.

That's the dang trouble.

You haven't paid any attention to me.

There's a guy in our tank, 24 years old.

They just gave him four life sentences.

24 years old.

It won't be too damn many more years that they'll be doing

that to you.

They're not going to slap your little hand and send you off to

Echo Glen or some damn place.

Is that what you want?

Huh?

- No.

-Yeah, you say that now 'cause you're sittin' here talking to

me, but-- get your hands out of your mouth!

Let me see your fingers.

Still biting your damn nails, too,

ain't you?

- Yep.

-Huh?

- Yep.

-When are you gonna stop doin' that?

Huh?

When you gonna stop doing that?

You're out there, tough guy on the street,

man.

Bigtime tough little punk is all you are.

Can't even quit biting your fingernails.

You're too goddamn little to be tough,

kid.

I'm serious.

I love you very, very much, even though I get mad at you and want

to kill you.

I love you.

You're all I got.

And unfortunately, I'm all you've got.

I'm gonna make it up to you, eh?

For all the stuff we didn't do.

You know?

I know I have to talk rough to you sometimes,

Dewayne, but you know that I love you a whole big,

big bunch.

If I get out this time, if I get out,

I'll keep you straight and you keep me straight.

Is that a deal?

-Mm-hm.

- Huh?

-Mm-hm.

-Just remember, you and I is all we've got.

Together, hey, ain't nobody can whip us,

ain't nobody can do anything to us.

I love you.

- All right, bye.

- Look at you: all beat up and cut up and scarred up and

drugged up.

I haven't seen you in two months.

You didn't even call me.

I can't get over that.

After I sent for you all the way from California,

down there stranded.

And you didn't even thank me.

You ought to thank me now.

-Thank you, Mom.

-Call her up.

You can call her up.

Nikita and them calls me, and Todd calls me.

Do you love your mother?

-Yes.

-When are you gonna show me?

Hm?

When are you gonna make me proud?

- So that's what you should do,

you should stop and see mom, you know what I mean?

'Cause she is the only one gotta guide map to your life.

'Cause you can't go nowhere unless you ask your mother

advices and things, you know that?

- He don't want no advice right now.

He thinks he's doin' it.

- That's why he's gettin' knocked around

and beat around, too.

-I love you, Patrice.

You wanna go eat somethin'?

I'm not gonna just give you my money now.

If you wanna go eat somethin', I'll feed you.

-I'm not hungry, ma.

-Yes, ya are.

- What did you eat today?

-Some cookies and, um...

And some juice.

-You want something hot in your stomach?

That's what you need.

Well, if I give you some of my money,

whatcha gonna do with it?

-Save it.

-Oh, yeah.

How're you gonna save it out here?

You'll just tell me anything just to shut me up,

huh?

-I'm tellin' ya.

He gonna save it.

- You got some money?

-A little change.

-If I think you're buying a pack of cigarettes,

next time I see you I won't give you a dollar.

-Okay.

- Or some weed.

-You'd better not.

You know that's hard-work money.

I worked for that money.

You spend it wisely, okay?

-Okay.

-When you get straight, you know where your house is.

-Okay.

-Okay.

-And the only way you can really get straight

is to stay in touch with mom, because you can't straighten

yourself.

- I have seven brothers and sisters.

I lost one seven months ago from cirrhosis of the liver.

She was 26.

I loved her alot.

It made me sort of loony for about a month,

a month and a half.

People thought I was going crazy.

I wasn't going crazy.

I just couldn't handle it.

- I just got out of jail not even a month ago.

I ain't gettin' in no trouble, punk.

I bet you guarantee I got a bruise on my arm,

guaranteed, and I'm pressing charges on your ass.

Punk.

'Cause I hate you and I'm gonna get you for that.

- him?

- I'm not a him.

I'm a her.

-I'm pressing charges on him.

I want you to know that right now--

-Okay, fine, you do that.

-Are you a sergeant?

-I'm asking you to please calm down.

-I'm calm.

-Now will you please leave because we have quite a crowd

here?

- You're a punk!

Punk!

- Giving blood, there's pain.

Falling in love, there's pain.

All you feel is the first initial needle.

The rest is lingering pain from when the needle's

pulled out.

-That burns.

- That's the worst part of it.

-Yeah, I know.

- How do you like it?

-That's nice.

-Honey, come and help me figure this out.

Now hold this.

Right here.

-Right there.

-Bring your head back up here.

- The shit burns your eyes,

I'm telling you.

-You're not supposed to have your eyes open.

-Yeow, you poked me in the eye now.

-Stop being a jerk.

- Thanks.

You just wiped it right across my fuckin' eye.

God, man.

- Why don'tcha do your own fuckin' perm, then?

- I probably have about a hundred kids on my

caseload.

'Course Patti is Patti.

She's an individualist, and she'll go along with you if

you're doin' what she wants, but she ain't gonna do a damn thing

she doesn't want to do.

-I knocked on the door, and I was just worried about you.

-I don't care how worried you're gettin' about me.

All I gotta say is that you don't got no right walkin' in my

house.

-But this morning, we've got, you know,

job therapy--

-We know that, but, Jerry, you gotta understand that you can't

just be walking into my house.

You might get shot as far as you know.

-Well, I took the chance on ya wouldn't shoot me.

And then I did.

I banged on the door, and I said--

-Well, the next time you're gettin' shot,

OK?

-OK.

So that means the rent's due today,

right?

-No.

- And if you're gonna stay here--

-Not from what Bob says.

-Not from what Bob says.

- It is.

-I told Bob I'd give him $20, and I told him I'd get him the

rest on Friday.

- This is the deal.

If you're gonna stay here, you gotta go out to job therapy.

- You can't tell me what to do.

- Patti, we've been together,

we've been working together on this thing--

-You and me ain't been together.

- And we have.

We've been working together, Patti.

And I'm concerned about you, you know?

I don't want you guys to have to hit the bricks again.

I don't want you to have to get back into some crap that you

shouldn't be involved in to pay your rent.

You've got a chance to make it a good way,

okay?

Now this guy has got some ideas that can help you get a job.

That's a better life for you than having to be hustling on

the streets or be down there pushing--

-Who says we're hustling down on the streets,

huh, Jerry?

- Oh, come on.

How else you gonna make your money?

- Most of the kids on the street,

that's how they survive.

They feel like if they don't do the dates,

that they're gonna be broke, they're gonna have to dumpster

dive, they're gonna have to beg for money,

and that's gonna make them feel, 'cause they're girls,

like "Oh, I'm no good.

I'm dirty, I'm rotten, I'm a scum,

I'm living in this rat-hole, you know,

no water, no electricity, no nothing,

I'm beggin' for money"...

I guess they feel that's worse than pullin' dates.

I don't know what their problem is.

- Munchkin's the one that wants us out there 'hoing

and shit, and I don't want to do it.

The only reason why I'm out there is because,

like I said, Patti's out there and she has to have somebody

with her.

-Hi.

- How you doin'?

- I'm okay, how are you?

-Oh, hi.

-And when I moved in with them, I said,

"Patti, I don't wanna be 'hoing or anything."

She said, "You won't be.

Munchkin's not gonna pimp you or nothin'."

-Do you turn dates now?

-Hell, yeah.

With her, me and Patti do.

I try to tell Patti I don't want to,

and she'll start bitchin' at me saying that I just missed a

hundred dollar date.

Every time I fuck up, she says it was a hundred dollar date.

- When you do make money, do you give it to Munchkin?

-I give it to Patti--

- All of it?

-And Patti gives it to Munchkin.

- And you haven't got nothin' out of it,

huh?

-Uh-uh.

Me and Patti are both mad right now,

because Munchkin's sending us out here,

and he's sending both of us out there to-- to fucking get him a

suit!

All he-- all he wants is a whole bunch of clothes and shit.

Get this, Patti hasn't pulled any dates today--

- And you have?

-And I did two.

40 bucks each.

- No, you don't know what I'm doing,

man.

I don't like the shit that you think.

-Neither do I.

- Doesn't make me happy.

-That's why I walked by without even talking to you.

For the simple reason that that's what I thought what you

were doin'.

- But I ain't.

I don't do that kind of shit.

I told you.

-Then what the hell you doin' just sitting there?

- I'm talking!

-All he does is shoot the shit up his damn arm,

man.

-Well, I told her, I said, "Hey, I can't handle this.

I'm gonna take off and shit."

She-- last night she says, "You ain't goin' nowhere."

And I said, "Yes I am."

This morning she was even talking all this shit about how

she was gonna sock me if I even tried to go up there and stuff.

I mean I was just trippin' out.

How the hell can these people just think they own me and shit?

Nobody does.

-You can end up with the wrong people down here.

It's just--

-You wanna know who set me up with the wrong people?

-Who?

-A person by the name of Shadow.

-Huh.

-You changed too.

When I first ran into you, you were real sweet--

- I still am--

-Oh yeah, uh-huh.

- I still am.

-When you ended up at George's, you were a real pain in the ass.

Now you're even worse.

- I was a real pain in the ass,

because you fuckin' bullshitted me.

You don't bullshit with me!

- But I keep wantin' to.

I don't know why.

Probably because I like you.

Drop that cigarette!

- It's not done.

Now it's done.

"America, the Beautiful"♪

- I like alot of the girls on the street.

Tiny, I like her especially.

She's a sweet girl.

-Jesus Christ...

Wanna go swimmin'?

- Ya think I'm crazy or somethin'?

Right, let's just jump in.

-All right.

How about a backflip?

- The reason why I think Rat is cute,

and the reason why I love him so much,

is because he's got pretty eyes.

I think they're brown or blue, one or the other.

- I gotta go back to school someday.

'Cause I need a diploma, so I can get into the Air Force.

But right now the Open Road,

USA is for me.

- Check you out!

- I didn't talk to her much about her being a

prostitute.

She hadn't done it that often from what she told me.

- Now where's my kiss, honey-bunch?

- Not with braces.

-Okay, Dewayne, right in here.

There you go.

- I'm the smallest guy in the unit.

-Yeah, for a while I thought maybe you might be in the other

unit.

- Oh, junior boys?

-Yeah.

- Naw, because of my age.

So when will I be released?

-Okay, now here's the deal.

I got a phone call from Kim yesterday,

and I wasn't in.

Then I phoned Kim this morning 'cause I needed to talk to her

before you get out of here.

-They won't tell us nothing unless we are his parents or got

a piece of paper that says I'm his legal guardian,

and I'm not.

Do you understand what I'm saying?

I am not his legal guardian.

-No, I don't understand what you're saying.

-I'm temporary guardian.

Nope.

Fuck that pig.

-So all I can do is just keep trying.

And as soon as I get a hold of her,

I've given permission for her to come down and get you and,

uh, the court workers signed the papers so she can get you out of

here.

- What do you want me to do?!

I'll do it!

I'll go down there and waste some time and not find out where

the fuck he's at.

- Man, just shut up, man.

- Kim, with that new baby,

she doesn't need any of these problems.

You're in a really touchy situation anyway,

right?

You're living with an 18-year-old who used to be real

active on the streets herself.

- Kim's 20.

-Is she 20 now?

- Yeah.

- Okay, legally, she's not a foster parent.

-Well, then, give me his phone number!

- Look in the phone book.

-Under Jerry Esterly?

- No, under juvenile parole services.

-They're closed, Steve.

It's five-fucking-15 in the fucking afternoon.

-I think it's really good, you guys are working out like a

family, and I think it's a good arrangement for you.

But I don't want you getting busted and messing that up.

- All right.

- Okay?

Right now you're charged with selling pot.

So as far as you staying away from downtown,

I don't care whether you stay away from downtown or not.

You've got a lot of friends down there.

I think that you have to use your own judgment on that.

-Yep.

-Okay?

Uh, you know the things you'd better not be doing downtown.

-Yeah.

-I mean, the police, everybody knows you down there.

-Yeah.

-Okay, if you're dealing dope, they're gonna,

you know, bust you again.

And if you get busted again, then you're not going to get out

of here until after your hearing.

- She'll start talking about,

"Oh, I wanna have a kid," and all this shit.

She just wants to get too serious at too young of an age.

She's only 14 years old, and she makes it sound like she's ready

to get married.

-Well, then don't leave.

-I got to.

-No, you don't.

-Yeah, I gotta get Mike out of Juvenile Hall.

-Why?

-Because I can't have my best friend locked up.

I gotta go break him out.

- Check you out.

-I'm serious.

I'm gonna go break him out.

Then we're gonna go to Florida.

-And what if you get caught?

-Oh, well I'll still be with him.

They'll throw me in jail right along with him.

Women are a pain in the ass on the road.

-Come here.

-I can't stand watching you and that dog.

Shit...

Throw that thing out the window.

Ugly.

Aw, man, shit.

-We're not even going to talk to you no more.

- I don't want you guys being mad at me.

Somebody's watching.

-She's going to kidnap me tonight and take me home--

-Listen.

-Yeah, she is.

-Go ahead and go with her.

-Why do you say that?

-Because if you want to, go ahead.

Doesn't matter to me.

Aha, I found it.

-Oh, you did.

- We got into a fight.

She was drunk that night.

-Mama, go away.

- She was slappin' on me and I was slappin' back on

her, because she hit me and I hit her back.

-The masterpiece.

- The next day she felt really bad.

- Finally, one day, I woke up and said,

"Hey, I'm an alcoholic.

I'd better do something about it."

- You comin'?

-Yeah, I'm a-comin', I'm a-comin'.

-Goodbye, mama.

- Goodbye, honey.

I love you.

-I love you too.

-I'll be back.

- No fucking walls or anything.

You got one little stair into the bedroom.

And you can look over and see the whole room in the front.

Then they have the bath and some fucking see-through curtains.

-What's your name?

Did somebody hurt you?

What did they do to you?

Hey, really, I won't hurt you.

Looks like her jaw is broke.

-Her jaw is broken?

-She's been-- look it, she's been bangin' her head on the

wall, going through a few things,

her eyes are rolling.

- Anybody see what happened?

- What has she been taking?

- I don't know.

- Open your eyes.

- Her tongue was stickin' out.

- Come on now.

We're here to help you.

I want to look at your eyes for a second.

- We need to look at your eyes.

- Does anybody know her here?

- No.

- You take any medications at all?

- You have a half an hour for visiting.

- A half hour?

-You're stupid!

- I am not.

It wasn't my fault.

- Well, if you wouldn't have been in that next room

hangin' your fuckin' head out the window yelling,

"Hey guys, I'm over here!

Look!

What you doing?"

- I didn't say that!

- Sitting there halfway out the window talkin'

to 'em.

Can't ever keep your fucking head in,

can you?

Like Brian says, "You can take the ho off the street,

but you can't take the street off the ho."

- Oh, well.

I guess it doesn't matter to me.

I didn't get arrested.

-You're lucky.

You're real lucky.

- You just gotta stay one step ahead.

- You left me there!

-That's right.

I sure did--

- It wasn't my fault.

-You didn't say, "Hey Rat, where're you going?

Hey Rat, take me with you."

- I woulda never got caught.

I wouldn't be in here 'til Monday.

- I'll be gone by Monday.

-I don't want you to leave.

Why can't you wait 'til next Sunday?

- 'Cause, I got places to go and things to do.

-Wait 'til next Sunday.

Come on.

This is the last time you guys get to see me-- or you.

- Oh well...

You missed a good fight there tonight.

Lulu kicked this one whore's ass.

She said, "You bitch," and she fuckin' smacked her right in the

face.

You know, she didn't smack her.

She punched her.

The broad fell down and jumped up and took off running all the

way up to Pike Street and then ran--

- Who was this girl?

-She's sort of tall.

She's real skinny, like you, and she's got real dark,

short hair, black hair.

I'd show her to you but you ain't getting out 'til Monday,

and I'm leaving Sunday.

-Why?

- Why?

-Why do you have to leave a day before I get out?

- Why?

Because Monday, Mike gets out.

I'm going to break him out Monday.

Thump, take their cuff keys.

Open the door, take Mike's cuffs off,

and off to Alaska we go.

That simple.

Maybe we'll stop through here and pick you up.

- Maybe?

-Doubt it.

I doubt it, but maybe.

Oh, well, so long...

Tiny.

Hey, Tiny.

What's the matter?

What's the matter?

-Nothing.

- Then why you crying?

If nothing's the matter, why are you crying?

-You should have figured it out by now.

- Well, I gotta go.

- Go, then.

- Hm?

Don't I at least get a hug goodbye?

- I found out in the morning that,

uh, there'd been a suicide.

Uh, I didn't know who it was, and I didn't think of Dewayne,

even though I knew he was in that institution.

Dewayne, um, hung himself.

The one thing that Dewayne wanted was-- was a family.

And he wanted to grow up as, uh, what he saw as just a

regular kid.

I think that he sort of had that dream of,

uh, a mother and a father and a house in the country,

maybe a horse or a bicycle to ride on.

He just wanted what every kid has a right to have,

I think.

At the funeral home, there was his father.

There were guards, prison guards, because of his dad's

status.

Three other people, all three who worked with Dewayne in one

way or another as part of the Social Service Agencies,

and that was it.

So it was pretty much as his life has been.

It was a pretty lonely, pretty skimpy affair.

- Lord, in our lives, we are often confused,

and we often ask, "Why?"

But it is times like these when our why becomes our strongest

cry.

- Get a girlfriend, have a house,

or a car, or somethin'.

Have a little money in the bank, get a job.

That's what I expect out of life.

Not much.

- I love you, and I'm sorry,

but I'll see you.

- It's my understanding that Dewayne will

be, uh, uh, cremated and, uh, his ashes spread on Puget Sound.

Dewayne was a, uh, street kid.

Dewayne drifted all his life.

And, uh, it seemed better for me than just putting him in a hole

in the ground in a box where's he's got to be there.

He's free.

He's never been that way before.

Bear's Picnic" by Anne Murray♪

♪"Take Care of All My Children" by Tom Waits♪