I did this for Jim Mosaic Man Powers and I lived to regret my 50 dollar donation because unlike the warm and loving message on my cel phone that I recently received, made sure to keep and did not respond to I went from his savior to the anti-Christ and he used the money to talk to someone that I would have to go file an aggravated harassment complaint against. (Someone that goes around asking is so and so crazy but in actuality the community mostly thinks he is nuts.)
I did find GL in the park. He had no money on him. I made him promise the money would go to food. He told me his phone is not working. I explained that was because he ran out of minutes. I do not know what he does and doesn't understand but I continued to urge him to tell friends he talks to on the phone to put money on his T-mobile account.
I also texted Jay, his son who is constantly touring with his own music hoping he can help.
While we were talking an unmarked car pulled up and I have to say I was happy they stopped to visit a group of men sitting on the bench I did not recognize and their area reeked of boozed.
Although the park still has it share of drug pushers, Tompkins has more Mom and Dads that are pushers of strollers so it is just plain gross although I have sympathy for the very old long term homeless drunks that have lived so much of their lives here but not drunks that have the luxury of a home. They need to go home rather than inflict the public gross behavior.
The city is over whelmed with alcohol and drug addiction including legal drugs but most drunks here have the luxury of a home. The rich have all their "addictions' delivered to their homes but in the park and in the streets it is easy to see the people caught in addictions that imprison than and are slowly killing them. Actually obesity is another addiction that is a killer. America has the most obese people on the planet and of course they are over weight and malnourished. Go figure but alcohol and drug abuse seems to be pretty common all over the globe....just very big business here in America. Prescription drugs are legalized drug dealings and pharmaceutical companies want kids on drugs early on because it makes them very rich. Too many kids have been prescribed Prozac, Ritalin, and it goes on in so many ways to that is really legalized drug dealings for greed and no drug busts are coming anytime soon. No Drug Enforcement Agency or NYPD are going to be making busts here in NYC although I am sure we will see some more celebrities dying from a cocktail of drugs and booze.
