I HITCHHIKED FROM ONE END of this country to the other a half a dozen times and spent so much time on the side of the road when I was a kid, I didn’t know what day it was or even care. Thirty years of wanderlust I spent two nights in a homeless shelter before God’s Love. I spent so much time outside I couldn’t stand to be inside at night, especially with a room full of drunks and bums. After a few years on the road I figured out what I really needed on the road and eventually became completely self sufficient. Totally righteous feeling to walk into a town and not only have no idea where you will sleep tonight, but don’t even care. I probably went to half a dozen homeless shelters just to get the vibe of real life desperation and tragedy. The saddest one I seen was in downtown Los Angeles, oddly enough on, “Wall Street.” If you’re looking for the End of the Line of a Life wasted by your own circumstances, LA’s your destination. IF YOU HAD THE WHIFF of money or virtually anything of value, you would not walk a solid block without a passerby whispering in your ear in passing, “Nickel Bag?” Or, “Got that Butter!(Crack)" Or “China White(Heroin).” My mother must have had some foresight in naming “Mark,” because I have lied up to the name as "A Mark," I can get picked out of a crowd to try an dupe. It rarely works. I probably had a nice pair of shoes on or sunglasses, whatever, I can’t seem to hide. I had a young girl look like she stepped off the pages of Teen model magazine proposition me just walking down the street in Hollywood. People living right on the sidewalk like Bombay, India! Tonight, right now sleeping on a card board box on a public sidewalk….. Blew my mind…. not in America? I used to like to go to LA every five years or so to see how crazy this World really is…. (To be Continued; -mag)11:49 AM 6/27/2013 James McElroy John Grisham Elmore Leonard Los Angeles Times Miami Herald One Man, One Case, One Real Life Heist By Mark Anthony Given The Real Drug Store Cowboy by Mark Anthony Given PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE Playboy MAXIM Magazine homelessinheaven.blogspot/2013/06/homeless-in-heaven-by-mark-anthony-given.html
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