dude.

I take New York Ave. to work. I've noticed on almost every trip, to and fro, two seemingly "houseless" men. Not together, two separate locations. Anyways, I've been thinking about one specific dude. I see him most frequently. I've started to search for him in his usual spot. He's obviously a victim of addiction but some days it's hard to tell. Some days he just looks like a panhandler. I've seen him nodding and barely able to stand and other days he looks like a tanned and healthy scammer. No matter how I'm viewing him, it's all bad. I wonder how things will work out for him. On some of the "tanned" days, I've thought he could probably pull a lonely bitch, easy. I imagine some lonely lady rolling down NY Ave in her Tesla thinking to herself, "I can clean him up." I've never felt compelled to throw change his way or food I might have in the passenger's seat. He's a White man. Things are stacked in his favor, life should be working out for him. It kind of pisses me off that he's not using his "priveledge" but trying to make eye contact with me because I'm sucking on a Chick Fila milkshake... obviously. I'm not even curious how he got here. More curious about how it'll play out. Good luck or whatever, dude.