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7/25/2025, 10:17:25 PM
>>24581936
Ah yes, 'taking care of' the homeless. I've spoken about it for years and if you browse other boards you might've seen me rant about it. What point is there in curing cancer when your paycheck relies on the treatment of it?
>>24581940
Fent has basically ruined a lot of them, they were all relatively drug related already and I wont get to the parts explaining the hen house in my writing here but I later find out that the Hen House was actually a squat house for almost 10 years and was used by a local straight edge (Flaming Punch Kangaroo or some stupid shit) house as their dumping ground for members who fell off the wagon.
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The girl upstairs was Rosalyn, everyone called her Ros (pronounced Rozz) for short. A shorter dreadlocked hippy girl, Ros came from somewhere in New York and loved to embellish her accent when talking to Philly or anyone else she thought was from the East Coast, like most New Yowkas. She was extremely politically outspoken and liked to believe our little squat would one day become an artist collective- mostly because of the crowd at Black Coffee constantly hyping everything up.
Rosalyn had previously spent some time living in a bus with some hippy guy in California, they had a kid together but Ros gave up custody to one of her family members. Rosalyn was constantly going on about how her ex would find her and 'get her' if he knew where she was. Despite her constant claims to be in hiding, a simple google search of her name would turn up many hits for a modelling website that included her current location and ways to contact her. Nobody besides Rosalyn mentioned their past much and Rosalyn often only did so in the context that she was 'hiding' from her ex.
You will have to excuse me if the backgrounds of my fellow street folk are lacking. Among a crowd where fully two thirds of the people around might come from money, you rarely get straightforward answers and reasons for why anyone has ended up where they are. I never asked any of the people in the squat how they got there and nobody really told me, you just sort of put together their stories over time as you get to know them. Everyone has baggage a mile long and focusing on how hard your life might've been before isn't something other street folk want to hear about, conversely, nobody wants to hear about how good you had it.
There are very little issues which lead to living on the streets that another street person cares about. The further you had to fall to get to the streets, the less people who didn't have far to fall really care. In fact, the traveling street life is seen as a step up from the homebum addict life in the hierarchy of streetfolk. To lament about ones life before becoming a Dirty Kid would imply you enjoyed that life more, that you haven't chosen this life, that this street life isn't something 'cool' to do. To call these kids modern Cynics would do justice to neither the Cynics nor the journey these kids were actually on.
Ah yes, 'taking care of' the homeless. I've spoken about it for years and if you browse other boards you might've seen me rant about it. What point is there in curing cancer when your paycheck relies on the treatment of it?
>>24581940
Fent has basically ruined a lot of them, they were all relatively drug related already and I wont get to the parts explaining the hen house in my writing here but I later find out that the Hen House was actually a squat house for almost 10 years and was used by a local straight edge (Flaming Punch Kangaroo or some stupid shit) house as their dumping ground for members who fell off the wagon.
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The girl upstairs was Rosalyn, everyone called her Ros (pronounced Rozz) for short. A shorter dreadlocked hippy girl, Ros came from somewhere in New York and loved to embellish her accent when talking to Philly or anyone else she thought was from the East Coast, like most New Yowkas. She was extremely politically outspoken and liked to believe our little squat would one day become an artist collective- mostly because of the crowd at Black Coffee constantly hyping everything up.
Rosalyn had previously spent some time living in a bus with some hippy guy in California, they had a kid together but Ros gave up custody to one of her family members. Rosalyn was constantly going on about how her ex would find her and 'get her' if he knew where she was. Despite her constant claims to be in hiding, a simple google search of her name would turn up many hits for a modelling website that included her current location and ways to contact her. Nobody besides Rosalyn mentioned their past much and Rosalyn often only did so in the context that she was 'hiding' from her ex.
You will have to excuse me if the backgrounds of my fellow street folk are lacking. Among a crowd where fully two thirds of the people around might come from money, you rarely get straightforward answers and reasons for why anyone has ended up where they are. I never asked any of the people in the squat how they got there and nobody really told me, you just sort of put together their stories over time as you get to know them. Everyone has baggage a mile long and focusing on how hard your life might've been before isn't something other street folk want to hear about, conversely, nobody wants to hear about how good you had it.
There are very little issues which lead to living on the streets that another street person cares about. The further you had to fall to get to the streets, the less people who didn't have far to fall really care. In fact, the traveling street life is seen as a step up from the homebum addict life in the hierarchy of streetfolk. To lament about ones life before becoming a Dirty Kid would imply you enjoyed that life more, that you haven't chosen this life, that this street life isn't something 'cool' to do. To call these kids modern Cynics would do justice to neither the Cynics nor the journey these kids were actually on.
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