Another excerpt from TRANSIENCE by Kenneth W Beek.
'The meeting with my new caseworker might have lasted an hour, which left three hours to kill before dinner. I sat and read. I was reading Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil at the time. That’s a heavy book, especially when you’re reading it in a crowd of crazy people.
That may seem like an insensitive thing to say, but it would be far more insensitive to pretend it isn’t so. There were hordes of people yelling, arguing, fighting. This is the perpetual Preble Street scene. About every five minutes someone is robbed and every half hour or so you see somebody assaulted. I’ve seen people hit with bricks, boards, canes, bottles, bags; I’ve seen shootings and stabbings, seizures, suicides, OD’s, heart attacks, bad trips, people lit on fire, people pissing and shitting and fucking right on and around the galvanized benches in the resource center’s courtyard.'
Truth teller. Writer. Witness. Thank you Kenneth W Beek.
Here's a link to his book:
https://mainernews.com/transcience/
A friend of Kenny's.