Homeless Man Speaks

TONY
“Phil, you should have seen the costume that the kids dressed me in last night.”

PHILIP
“What kids were those?”

TONY
“I’ve been going out with this family on Halloween for years. Back when my wife was alive, we used to go ‘trick or treating’ with them. Now they’ve got their own kids, which is who I went out with last night.”

PHILIP
“So what was your costume?”

TONY
“Let me put it this way — I had fishnet stockings, short skirt, garters, everything you can think of. My boobs were filled up with kids’ socks. I even had two guys proposition me. Anyway, the kids had a riot but I wonder what they told their mom afterwards.”

This entry was posted on November 1, 2007 at 4:02 pm and is filed under beggar, children, costume, family, fishnet, Great Parade, Halloween, homeless, homelessness, kids, Kundera, Laura Knight, mask, mom, Nietzsche, panhandler, riot, skin, stockings, street people, trick or treat, unbearable lightness.