Saturday, January 12, 2013

Marvin

Marvin walked up to me in a Safeway parking lot on Castro Valley and asked me for some help because he was down on his luck. A Marine Corp veteran, he was in Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam.

He has the smooth, lyrical Creole cadence that so many from his native New Orleans have, but like many others he was permanently displaced after Katrina. He came to California to live with family, but that hasn't worked out like he'd hoped.

I asked him to wait for me and I'd get him some food from the supermarket, but when I came out with some sandwiches, he was gone. Good luck Sir.

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