Hobo on Flatcar Eastbound for St. Paul MINNEAPOLIS I came east from Spokane Washington last night ⦠been riding all night headin to St. Paul to a mission so I can get a meal and some sleep ⦠ya gotta watch these overpasses at night ⦠itâs dangerous ⦠them kids who live up around hereâll attack ya or stone ya to death ⦠thereâs no lights in these cars and these kids think thereâs nothin funnier than to jump some guy and beat him up or hit him in the head with rocks ⦠hey ya see that guy come outta that tunnel? ya know where he just came from? Well a lot of them homosexuals come down to this area to have what they call fun ⦠those kids never mess with the homosexuals cause a lot of them are rough ⦠yeah theyâre demonstratin in the streets for their rights to marry one another ⦠a woman marryin a woman, a guy marryin a guy ⦠hell! I donât know why they wanna do that ⦠I wouldnât get married ⦠too many bills too many problems ⦠now I donât mean that I donât wanna be around a buddy ⦠I just mean I donât want no wife ⦠ya know some of them women homosexuals are just as strong as men ⦠one time I was in this bar and one of them women was sittin next to me she says: Hey buy me a drink ⦠so I bought her one and then she tells me to buy her another one ⦠I said Hell no. No womanâs gonna take advantage of me ⦠then the bartender leaned over and said: You better watch it sheâs a dyke and the woman said: Yeah Iâm a dyke. So I bought her a drink ⦠ya gotta watch it cause some of them are really rough ⦠The switchmen donât give ya any trouble ⦠they only give the winos trouble. The winos and tramps who are hungry give ya the most trouble. Ya got all kinds of heads ridin these days ⦠ya got pillheads, hopheads, jesus ⦠they try to catch you asleep or drunk ⦠then they hit ya over the head ⦠thatâs when ya have trouble. I canât stand them winos. I know I look like a wino when I need a shave but I ainât one. Who needs to get wrapped up in wine all the money it takes to keep on gettin it. No not me ⦠I just move around stop here or there at a mission to eat and clean up. The mission over in St. Paul is real nice ⦠you fellas oughta come out with me ⦠youâll get yourselves a good meal and a nightâs sleep. Well hereâs where I get off. Listen when I jump can ya throw my pack down right after me? itâll save me walkin all the way back to pick it up ⦠and make sure ya jump before ya get to the switchyards ⦠they got guys watchin from the towers â¦
Man on Second Avenue 2:00 A.M. NEW YORK CITY This guy I know was walking with a friend of his around West Street and they had gone into one of the bars and had a beer and after they were walking down the street when this car from Jersey cruised by ⦠kids come around all the time throwin bottles and screamin Queer and then takin off ⦠so this car cruised by real slow and some kid leans out the window sayin Suck my dick and my friend gave him the finger and said something. All of a sudden the car slams on the brakes and five kids come piling out and start kickin the shit out of my friend. For the next ten minutes about a hundred guys come out of the bars and from around the corner and surround these five kids beatin the shit outta my friend ⦠his friend took off right away and later my friend found out that he had just run home didnât even bother calling the cops or nothing and all these guys crowding around watching five guys beatin up one guy and none of them said or did a thing ⦠my friend said that they stomped on his head and chest and broke a lot of his ribs ⦠at one point he got up and tried to break through the crowd but the kids got him by the hair and pulled him