tramp

Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean__n ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance

Last night, Good Friday night, at the bottom of the escalator at King__ X tube, a weasel-faced man in uniform was sweeping up rubbish with a wide broom, drink cartons, cigarette packets with all the dust and filthy scraps of the day which he pushed towards an elegant long black glove that was lying there. I expected him to pick it up as I would have _ I thought of picking it up, but was too late. He smothered it in a wide sweep. It seemed to me extraordinary and shocking that he had no feeling for it. Several images went through my mind, a symbolic hand, a dead blackbird, an ornamental bookmark fallen from a lectern Bible _ any once-precious relic being tumbled in the dirt. As I went up the escalator I remembered the Tatterdemallion whom I haven__ seen for months and thought of his body, if he were to die in the tube, being tumbled about with the rest of the thrown-away rubbish._ David Thomson, In Camden Town

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?