Gutter Alumni:

     ”It’s the gutter alumni back for another line. I’m ready to take back the streets and stack chips like a crack fiend stacks Brillo pads. I got my gear, my strap, my stash, and I’m back on the block.

     It’s been years since I took this path, but times are hard, and money talks. I was never really good at slanging. I got robbed, beaten, and more than one gun put to my head. I was always better at using. I ate more product than I moved. Line it, smoke it, hoop it–whatever. Just keep that needle away from my veins and we’re good.  

     In fact, using is why I’m in this predicament. I drugged myself into the gutter like fat man eats his way into a heart attack.

     This time will be different, though. I’m gonna come up. I’m gonna get myself out of this hole I’m in and get off the streets–right after I take this line…”  ~ G. Paul Stevenson