Thoughts from the beggar on Bloody Street

What do I do tonight? I just made $500. My stomach is smiling cuz I just had my first  hot dinner from McDonalds in three days. Damn it feels good to be full. Maybe I can finally buy some new gloves cuz these gloves are done for. The holes on my gloves are starting to attract roaches. Do I  sit on the corner asking for more change? Maybe they will pay me because I'm most known on these bloody streets. "I hear em down the corner yelling, Scott Pete." Get off my corner they all say." "I'm tryna sell yay." "Scott out here downtown fooling on broadway." My mom kicked me out the house when I was eighteen. Since then I've been sitting here making sick green. I know everything that goes on around here in Crenshaw, Cali." Last night after asking some rich kid for some change I witnessed three dead bodies." This was normal her on the boulevard of south central LA. A prostitute, a drug dealer and a pimp murdered. That pimp was my best friend from high school Pimp Slick.  He got all the girls back then by just showing his gold teeth.  He is the one that hooked me up with Ashley. I could believe their was murder cause it happened everyday. But I  couldn't believe they got my brother ride or die Pimp Slick.  Everybody knew his wallet stayed fat working at his father's barbershop. I remember high school. I would do it again if I could. Dropped outta school real tho quick cuz I hated to read. I wish I could go back but it's too late. What I look like learning algebra at twenty-eight? "Now I  got a baby on the way little girl Chrisitne." Baby momma in my ear  nagging all the time, "like get a job, you a bum. " I'm like whatever at least I aint got six sons." She like what? I'm like nothing. My baby momma Ashley like" oh ok,  I thought you said sumthin smart I was bout to say. She start nagging again, "Don't you get tired of this corner go back home, get ya shidd together, start acting grown."Ashley is my high school sweet heart we were in love ever since my sophomore year, the year before I dropped out. The year before my life changed.  Ashley was different from me. I don't know wat she saw in my good for nutting ass. I mean Ashley was smart. Ashley graduated number one in our class. She was supposed to go to Yale but she got pregnant by old boy Chris down the block her senior year of high school.