DOC:
How was it when you have been sleeping rough in the streets?
G:
Rough!
DOC:
Bearable?
G:
When it wasn't freezing, when people like you didn't come around kicking us in the middle of the night with their feet or beating the hell out of us with baseball bats.
DOC:
Drunk people?
G:
Drunk or not, it's just something that they do for fun or because we exist: they fear a hobo. Tramp to you DOC!
DOC:
Fear?
G:
Fear that they might become like us. Kicking is bearable. A hard beating is felt months afterwards but it's still better than fire.
DOC:
Fire?
G:
They set fire on people sleeping on the streets. You didn't know that DOC?
DOC:
They set people on fire?
G:
Yes, DOC! All the time!
DOC:
Do they survive?
G:
Never! They burn to death. Yes, DOC! To death! Who's gonna call the fire brigade in the middle of the night? A passer-by who had already run away scared to death or another hobo skulking petrified in a corner somewhere with his imaginary iPhone?
DOC:
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