Blog 5

I drive a taxi cab for a living. About two weeks ago on a Tuesday afternoon I was sitting in my cab at the intersection of 3rd. and Towsand. There were police cars there, the street was blocked off and a yellow canvess was laying in the street. It was clear to see that the canvess was covering a body. It looked as if someone had been hit by a car and killked. The next day in the newspapers I read about a person being run over by a mail truck at 3rd. and Towsand. The person in the papers was someone I had seen before but did not know personally. He was a black who had lost both his legs and use to get around on a skatebord. When I lived near the corner of Broadway and Columbus in North Beach, I use to see him all the time. I remember one time he was parked outside the hotel where I was living. As I walked passed him to enter the hotel he heald an empty cup up at me for me to give him some change. I looked at him and shook my head and kept on going into the hotel I stayed at. I remember thinking to my self, why does'nt he get a wheelchair like other people who've lost their legs. On another occasion he was crossing grant street on the North East Side of Colombus Avenue, he almost got hit by a car and seem to think nothing of it. I thought to myself, if he dosen't get himself a wheelchair he's gona get hit by a car one of these days. People can see him in a wheelchair but that skate board he's on makes it dificult for anyoe to see him. According to the news paper the driver of the mail truck did not see him and ran over him. The people who knew him set up a shrine for him near the corner of Eddy and Taylor. After reading about it in the papers I went down to Eddy and Taylor about nine thirty or nine fourty five that evening, and felt like I was in a different world. I was reminded of a time when I use to live among people who all had Devils and Demons inside them. We are all trobled by our own devils and demons, but the devils and demons that are brought on by drug addiction have become a major proublem in the black community.