homeless john from chicago standing next to his shopping cart; he has several
bleeding sores on his face.
john has held just about every sort of "manual" job (including dealing
cards). "i'm a jack of all trades" he says. he was knocked off a girder on a
construction site in '89 and was badly injured. he got a small settlement and
moved to the west coast (la, vegas, san diego, sf, ...).
he lives on the street with his wife, "a little black girl." when asked where
she is, "she's probably panhandling over by the bart station." he's trying to
get her to go to the methadone clinic with him.
he refuses the "corrupt" shelter system because there's so much theft.
moving to sf from vegas was one of the worst decisions he's made. initially
he had built a great place outdoors with generators and all sorts of amenities
in china basin (before the baseball park), then came the earthquake, destroying
everything, and things went downhill from there.
(1/31/06)
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