Thursday, June 15, 2017

Hey, It's been awhile...



 Oh Yes, that’s right- son got a tent.  Then son left/lost/ said tent.   Then I was, oh wait before that I was… Have you ever tried to cross the street to go to a restaurant and there is a sign that directs you across 6 lanes of traffic to the other side, not only to have you cross the street you originally needed to, then to have to cross those other 6 lanes of traffic again?  So this bullshit judge for my original case actually asked someone (for another case) to ‘pull up’ Google maps on their phone in order to put on the record how far this man had to stay away from an over pass/possibly his home… here in San Ho (the land of the billionaires)… seems it was close to his work, too close for the usual distance they order for people here.  Hey, Asshole, how about you spend a night under an over passes or in jail then come at me (granted this is post/in the middle of my struggle) or him with that.  Can they do that if he owned a home?  I do absolutely belie3ve here for some, not the ‘actual’ robots I’m speaking of, or speak of… yes, some of those have actually applied for the same assistance you and I can and do and get denied for at times- hopefully for all the correct reasons- not someone at an office looking at or reading a paper incorrectly when everything is computer based anyways.  Conveniently of coarse/course I don’t know.  Bet the, a different judge, whom has black, balled me, an actual person from housing… after spending 30 actual, 45 combined?... I wonder if he’s spent a night in jail?  I understand, no I don’t… but I’m not a judge- can you imagine the safety involved in being a judge?  I can’t.  I would hope that they are as protected as the rights they ‘judge’- but to say that you’re allowing people, actual, fake, sons, daughters, robots… Ms. ... from the PD's office.... is someone I’ve routinely, 4 times, seen in action.  I don’t know what her credentials are, is, were, should be, are in process of- so here’s what happens. Her job from what I’ve seen in to read what people’s charges are, and what the DA is offering.  I have an issue with reality- it’s true, I cried in jail when someone told me what they were going to have to stay in for; in addition to what time they had already spent inside fighting their case.  Literally, lost it… like I might in the library chair I shouldn’t be in- I’m still technically banned, though my barcode number still works- I don’t know.  For me, it’s a life line.  Back to those that matter- seriously, I could give two shits if I die in a tent in a storm drain here, hopefully- I’ve been able to tell some of these stories of which have made me be….  Actual scenario- I get pulled over for a DUI- she reads I’m charged with DUI, DUI above 0.08, DUI with an accident, hit and run, fleeing the scene, evading an officer, resisting arrest…. There might have been more but I think I got it…. He was drunk, drove, had an accident, was close enough to home to leave his car and walk there- girl have another drink at happy hour and maybe your …. Can find your phone for you when you can’t- those in between the seats are a real bitch.  So he walks home, is in the bathroom throwing up, trying to tell his mother what happened when the police bust through the door and arrest him.  He fought his case for 4 months, they dropped everything but the DUI, DUI above 0.08, and DUI with an accident… he’s in jail for an additional year.  He has two girls.  Priors were considered, just like my failure to appears have been considered in my ‘delinquency’- He’s going to have to go to prison. And is 24?  Has spent time in before, where and when he was forced to join a gang- can you imagine getting a ‘kite’ that says ‘be ready?’  Then after disassociating from the gang, was made to stay in a cage, like a dog, think it’s not literally like a dog cage?  Have you been in jail? Prison?  After that he was then put in ‘solitary,’ which isn’t like the movies I hope- I mean, instead of the lights being off, they are on for the entire time.  Though the CO’s can turn them off and on.  The premise is to make sure that you really want to disassociate- and aren’t trying to infiltrate…. Mind you this all started in the system for him- juvie, then prison after he became of age.  He spent both his coming of age birthdays in jail/prison- I don’t remember my 18th- I always like to talk about how my father didn’t remember (I'm sorry- I did naturally tell all my friends and now the world wide web.), and then at 12:01 on my 21st called my home girl on the way to get wine while I was taking a study break- am I for real?  This is about them and not me- but fuck.   Anyways, let’s get America working right?  Well, by grace, he had gotten a job-did well, then moved to a different company that was closer to his home instead of an hour away- he has kids, it’s a priority.  So then the aforementioned happened and now he’s got me in his ear, who didn’t take anything to jury trial like I should, telling him that that’s like getting three DUI’s-  I mean they added up the time- intervals accounted for in whatever manner, and that’s the deal.  The DA and Public Defender did this.  I don’t know how much time someone did or didn’t do- but ‘your mama so dumb she got hit by a parked car’- now but I hit one and now am behind bars for a very long time when you think of having toddlers.  Geez!  No injuries.  I mean- initially he was facing like 6 years, and had the option to take that deal…. For real?  His car wasn’t drivable – what the fuck was he supposed to do? 
Note- the 12 added lanes I had to walk… someone times I’m an asshole and jaywalk- not when I was arrested for doing so- at 7:30 on very busy streets.  Did you know that is someone taps their brake lights on the freeway/9interstate- I didn't learn the difference until I moved here… it can be seen/felt in the traffic behind said tap for 8-10 miles? 
My nervous breakdown when I found out that someone was going to jail for 12 months, after spending 8 months also- for drugs.  Drugs.  Like pills.  I’m so sorry that psychiatrists and the system at hand have made it so shitty for people to get the drugs they need- as is my situation, and the disparities so great that its necessary to have a side hustle on top of your hustle that may or may not be legitimate either- but the isolation is real.  Apparently, to me, not the ones imposing, and defending, and prosecuting these ‘kids’- ask his mama if she feels like her 26 year old son whose story I just told feels like he’s a kid or not and isn’t feeling guilty (forgive me for assuming) the two days a week she goes to visit him- for the situation, not going more, and not being able to control what happens to him.  Ever had someone just walk up to you and… sometimes all it can take is nothing at all. 
I just tried to Google- to accurately say, which I do all the time that clearly these people aren’t qualified, as is this is the teenage suicide capitol of the world.  I hope Palo Alto has the numbers/areas… it’s easy to not consider that number when your city of 1 million/466km doesn’t have a level 1 children’s hospital to tattoo those numbers across your forehead- I say it as  a Santa Clara County issue. 
It took me 8 months and going with a social worker to get my EBT card- of which I qualify.  No free rides or bus passes to the follow up that’s a week out- or 3 days, and bus passes that take equal or greater amount to obtain, if even accessible, or not stolen- or even if there is a route within distance to and from that won’t get you killed or- I know pedestrians get hit day and night drunk or not so yes it’s a concern- on top of that you already have my son on your radar as a law enforcement officer or peace keeper? Tha fuck is that?  And accidents happen, I don’t believe in coincidence as a, no no serendipity is different than coincidence, I drop a cup- that’s an accident.  Someone gets run over by a car and Thank God we, in health care changed the terms to, MVA- motor vehicle accident… can you imagine being told your love one just died in an accident… no, it was a collision. 
I have parents who trust the system, as do I- as something to not be trusted.  That doesn’t include those that are called to as an American Right to defend my friend, my child, a stranger for Christ’s sake regardless of ability to pay.  I don’t feel that I have been defended appropriately in its entirety as it pertains to Santa Clara county, more specific san Jose, Levi court, Hall of justice, and the family court building-  some of those are the same.  So they have Levi Stadium and Levi Court- turns out they be hella far away… as I was blogging before, wandering what kind of world I'm in that couldn’t be of this world- the drug court, Levi court, family justice center are right across from St. James parl- which is downtown.  
They have white noise in the court room.  ‘Your honor may we approach?’ Then ‘shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh’  I mean the paranoid mother fuckers don’t have to do so because I couldn’t here and I was in the jury seats- as an inmate every time I’ve been to court- failure to appears not even decreased as it pertains to my hospital admission that attributed.  Literally, didn’t give a fuck.
There are so many ways a sane person can go cray.  I’m not saying I was, am or am not- but mine has been by the different bus routes taken by these fancy sheriffs’ buses.  Related to traffic, keeping said (I’m trying to write this about people I’m trying to be dramatic all teary eyed at this library- but wait I had to hear my jam/ change the song that’s playing from you tube in the background) I thought that the stadium and the court house may be in the same area- sorry, I’m not from here… and to say that people keep their heads down isn’t a lie.  Empathy- I was told is dying in the bay area.  Wordiness- I mean, I mean… and I have the nerve to make fun or ridicule the ‘nigga,’ ‘my nigga,’ that’s thrown around here as an educated person who knows that its either ignorance or something else. 
I’ve digressed- or feel like I have- but these people are behind bars.  Missing Christmas, birthdays, music, etc.  I realize there are hard criminals- so alternate routes to the court house may or may not be needed- I also know that that’s secondary to a bunch of primary problems.  Of which- have you ever gone and applied for aide?  Ever been denied because of a bitter bitch behind the counter? Is it possible?  Or is it why someone may or may not lay in a tent for days on end after the world has already beaten them up (it doesn’t matter why?  If you think it does then your empathy is lacking- mine is, was, and hopefully wont again) hopefully as just life happening naturally and not induced life lesions… that’s reason enough.  Then to pick yourself up and go to that office and deal with whatever you have to aided by the attitude of those who work there. 
I’m sorry I didn’t take my case to jury trial- I got and was scared… as I am for my friends I made while there.  I have someone who can attest to that- I have thought a lot about going back in.  One to visually check on them, two because sometimes no matter what you do you can’t do right or enough.  How important are those emergency food stamps to someone who just got out of jail, that you can get that day- here you’re told to come back in three days.  And the letdown/what the fuck? Is written all over these people’s faces when they leave empty handed- possibly going to a THU where they are told that their stuff will be stolen- is it the ones running the THU, the other resident’s, part of the ‘struggle’ or the ‘teach them a lesion struggle?’ I don’t know… a judge wouldn’t refer me to one after I already served my time.  He wanted me to do a program in order to be referred- which would be a double sentence. 
In jail I learned that in San Jose ‘they’ are adding, for example, heroin to meth.  (Well, both those are wrong so what does it matter?  Obviously your readiness to learn isn’t there- so I’ll say it anyways because education and ignorance can come in anyway it wants- meanwhile that mama’s son won’t be home for Thanksgiving or Christmas and is in the same city…) I know, I know that it is the same government that put these people behind bars that would do so.  Fact.  Possibly blame it on a drug dealer that’s hard up- and I’ll say doubtful- cause that’s not right…. Just because I’m a drug dealer doesn’t mean I want people going crazy and killing themselves on Facebook.  (I’ve literally said out loud I’m going to start a Facebook live campaign of giving guy’s head as a way to make up for that? Is that possible?  I don’t think so- but its better then ‘officials’ or the powers at be flooding the market with undercovers selling shit to purposely make people trip and get caught up in a system and then rehabilitated? By the same system that made them trip?  Fuck you dude- to say that’s someone’s deal is not that farfetched.
I’m sorry if my comedic demeanor has taken away from these stories of others loved ones or the point (I had a dignity on wheels worker tell me not to ‘get stuck in the shower.’  Yes, hot water helps or can aid- did he mean it as in needles, or just how some homeless are when they finally get to close the door and shower?  I don’t know.) - Because to them it’s not funny and it hurts.  But, my education and self-awareness- not of this county, tells me that it’s my ‘way of dealing with it also.’  I’ll try to do better.  I also have been tripping- as a PTSD thing from being mugged- in LA... Any photos of me walking down Santa Monica Blvd in LA one morning during rush hour with a hoodie/hood up… please don’t compare me to anyone (Lindsay Lohan, Micha Barton, or …) who may be going through their own hell… but if so, that was the morning after.  Point I’m making is that after I picked myself up off the sidewalk I walked to a gas station, asked to use the phone and was denied, walked to an open restaurant (who thankfully let me sit there for oh 4 hours, not use the phone, but again I may not have been able to ask) and was denied- honestly, I was covered in dirt and may not have even said anything just strode there shaking.  That’s not as bad as here- here I was tripping related to that and being scared of the dark and without prescription eye wear… and was told by two officers whom I didn’t call but took it upon themselves to tell me that I was crazy, making people nervous, and to leave/keep it moving.  I asked them to call EPS- which is where I was taken after my suicide attempt (in this county) and was told no.  Literally, they told me no, and waited for me to keep moving.  Did I challenge them? Did I want to know what would happen if I did? 
Have I been told by a CO to not ask for his badge number unless I wanted to be on his radar which had been there for 16 years? Yes. 
Did I file a grievance over a rotten banana in my lunch? Yes.  Did I then rescind said grievance when a Captain asked me what I wanted or was trying to accomplish and did I want him to get me a new banana- in front of the entire dorm? Yes. 
Does stuff and everything matter just that much….

     

      

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