"Man out there in the world we're fuckers but here we are brothers" said the big black broad-shouldered nigger at 6:00 am in the Y auditorium to all the bums that gathered to hear the early morning message. "We're bums drug addicts alcoholics pimp bastards screwers of one another louse of the earth We have come here not to repent we are not cock suckers (unless by choice) We are proud son of a bitches! We are friends to our sicknesses we are here brothers to heal each other with the self same voice that sits in the putrid bowl of hot shit."
Irwin R. Shaw - January 5th 1986
The Y
"Man
out there in the world we're fuckers
but here we are brothers"
said the big black broad-shouldered nigger
at 6:00 am
in the Y auditorium
to all the bums
that gathered to hear
the early morning message.
"We're bums
drug addicts
alcoholics
pimp bastards
screwers of one another
louse of the earth
We have come here
not to repent
we are not cock suckers
(unless by choice)
We are proud son of a bitches!
We are friends to our sicknesses
we are here brothers to heal each other
with the self same voice
that sits in the putrid bowl
of hot shit."