Not For Nuttin'

Gus Beatty ended every sentence with " bottom line, not for nuttin´ ". " Ritchie " he said to me a week before he died from another overdose, " You see so much on these streets - you do it differently, you gotta tell the stories and about the love - bottom line, not for nuttin´ ". So I call the pieces - Not for Nuttin´. The work is about J-O-E who passed around her newborn to anyone in the soup kitchen who wanted to hold the child, wanting him to get use to strangers, " just in case" . She died in the streets, hit by a car. About Pit Bull, the three hundred pound shaved headed hood who risked his life taking charge at the scene of an accident . About my psychotic friend who picketed the restaurant with the sign " RAT FECES FOUND IN LEO'S FOOD " . About the three old man -Winkin, Blinkin and Nod - who held on to the streets for dear life and " sailed off in a wooden shoe " . And others . A street social worker writes .