Not For Nuttin': A Journey with "some folks without homes" and me.

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 .