Wrote this when I got in and out of jail in San Antonio using a fake name and social security number for being barred out at the river walk and trying to steal shit tho I can't remember what. What I do know is they let me out and I had no shoes but all kinds of random trinkets and I was wearing a ripped up scarface shirt I'd never seen before so since only twelve days had passed and I pulled a Houdini I spent my last 25 bux on a greyhound ticket to where my gf was checked into rehab and it also happened to be her birthday....surprise let's get the fuck outta here. Well i get there after i hitch a ride and walk some miles and get turned away from this rehab ranch in the middle of fucking nowhere and apparently she sold my shit for heroin before checking into rehab so now I'm stuck In a town of 15,000 people with 3 $ and no wallet or id or phone or any of that shit so I buy a fifty cents notebook steal a pen and stock up on like 9 ramen noodles. Chili lime shrimp, living large...and i seek refuge under a ditch bridge waterway below the highway where I proceeded to live on cold ramen cigarette buts rolled up in notebook paper or toilet seat covers and an occasional fifth of dirt cheap whiskey from the kindness of strangers who noticed me always near Walmart or McDonald's stealing electricity or wifi or food from the trash cans or elsewhere all the while having an active warrant in a town not three hours away and unable to hitch a ride outta town for about three weeks and as it starts to get cold of course it starts to rain so at about 2:30 in the morning during week two I wake up feeling wet and it takes me a sec to come to and realize my clothes I acquired from raiding the McDonald's house drop off and notebook and shit are floating down stream into the Guadalupe which is steadily rising by the second so I make a splashing run and dive for my shit then haul ass out of the ditch to go try and sleep behind a dumpster with the flaps opened up and pulled back. During these three weeks just about filled that whole notebook with songs that ended up on several ch's..... i know ur probably wondering why didn't I just hop a train or catch a ride..... there were no trains. Trains stopped rolling through twenty plus years ago the old folks would tell me. "Are u looking for a train station" "I can tell you where there's a bus station, but there ain't no trains around here son, I'm afraid your out of luck" well can u give me a ride to the next town thirty minutes away. "Sorry I can't, I would if I could but ...."