Interview with a Homeless man named "Chris from arizona"

Ok so yesterday I had the day off and I'm walking down Main Street smelling that nasty garbage and fish TANG on the Street (ya’ know what I'm talking about Queens college, Flushing High, and John Bowne students). I head towards the 7 train on Roosevelt, when I see this homeless guy sitting down on the corner right by Old navy*.

So I pass by him the first time to observe him, I stayed there for awhile. I felt so bad for him civilians, and passer by's gave him this look like as if he was an unwanted animal disturbing there walk to Mc Donald’s or Old Navy * .

He sat on a towel covered in black grease, a light haired, fair skinned dancing doll that played music was beside him and his only companion as he collected cigarettes that people dropped by him. I thought to myself "sometimes we don't know how much we have until we see a homeless person eating the skin off of a KFC bone in the garbage".

After a while I couldn’t take it anymore I introduce myself "Hi my name is ... what’s yours?" I asked; he looked up at me and I noticed his left eye pupil had been "rubbed out" (he had only one operational eye) he was wearing a raggedy pink California hat and he smelled like old (arenque con mierda de gato seca) he didn't have a shirt on and he used a rope for a belt on his feces covered jeans.

At first I was really cautious because some homeless people are not used to actual conversations with people, and they lash out violently cursing if you come off on the wrong foot, but this guy was really COOL and UPLIFTING, on top of that he was telling me jokes and stories about his life, he even preached the bible to me.

The day before I met “Chris from Arizona” I thought man life sucks, I’m so unlucky, Why don’t things ever go my way? (I’m sure we’ve all thought this sometime or other)

I meet this homeless guy who revitalized my faith in God, in life and made me laugh so hard aside from all the horrible stories he told me of how NYC cop’s held him down and sprayed mace on his eye “that’s why my eye don’t look sexy” he said to me as I laughed again, surprised that he can make a light joke of this incredible injustice done to him. “It’s ok, We’re all going to the same place when we die, and I’m sure God will repay each one of us accordingly” he said with a smile that just made you smile along with him.

Such strong words in faith from a person so down he should have no faith at all.

NEXT ARTICLE I WILL HOPEFULLY INTERVIEW CHRIS ON VIDEO AND POST IT UP ON REMOLACHA.NET * we will talk about the VIETNAM WAR, G.BUSH and BLOOMBERG, and LIFE ON THE STREETS