because, I mean, he's, I mean, he's,

Byrne is my homie.

We shit periodically, you know,

uh, he's, uh, you know,

and he's,

he's like a fellow bastard son of Ulster.

Like I said, him and Mrs. Byrne are kind of like the kids I never had, uh, not to be a maudlin faggot. But, uh, like at the landmark, you know, which again is like basically like that whole manuscript like I'd written at the fucking landmark

okay there's this dude who's like

as regular there as I am

he's literally

an IDF veteran which isn't that rare on the North Shore dude's whole fucking asshole

like he was wearing a shirt one time it said so I'm in Hebrew and then under it in

English it said visit Lebanon help a haji meet Allah because Because it's like, ho, ho. Like, that dude's, like, made some wise-ass remarks to one of the bar girls he likes for talking to me. But that dude's always, like, perfectly respectful of me. I'm not going to invite him to sit at my table. Yeah. But it's like, dude and I can tolerate each other, but some like white trash,

Randow and Virginia like goes into like full blown rage if he sees me.

Like how exactly does that work?

Yeah, that's, it's, it's been a while since I've been in a city where there was that much

homelessness and that much like, remember that dude who walked up to us, his fingers were rotting off, holding like a $100 bill? That hasn't happened to me in a long time, man. Well, yeah, you don't even see that here because, I mean, don't get me wrong. Like, if you go, uh, if you gotown, like on the periphery, you know, if you're around, like, Cicero and Lamont or something, and I'm not, like, proud of this, but when I was homeless, I spent a lot of time there just because I knew my plug.

And also, like, I mean, Ktown's the deep hood but it's not

like really a spot but just the same there's a lot of addicts there and there's a lot there's a lot of hookers

just like street whores but I mean two things I was fucking embarrassed to be around like normal people

you had always kept myself clean with it as much as possible, you know, I was like

embarrassed and I didn't know, I didn't want to think about it. But also, uh, like CPD, you'll basically give you one chance. If you're like hanging around, uh, like you're hanging on Lincoln Park or something, you know, even you're not panhandling, but you're obviously strung out. They'll basically give you, like, one chance, be like, look, bounce. And if you don't, like, they're going to, they're not going to charge you, but they're going to make you go wait, you know, so, yeah, seeing a dude and, uh, that dude looked like a leopard to slamming track. It's horrifying. And like, people who, I was, I was out of the, my addiction by the time that hit and I'd like to think um like I was out of all that before like fentanyl replaced heroin and then all these like Frankenstein compounds but uh I mean fentanyl is literal poison anyway but if you're injecting trank dope uh your skin will rot off you'll develop lesions and your skin will rot

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