Full stage lights, slide of a city background, street noises in the background. Homeless person in a sleeping bag centre stage begging. There is a wreath hanging by one of the chairs.
Sounds Fades and lights fade except for centre light.
Homeless man:
Christmas time, The streets are filled with twice the amount of people buying gifts, and of course I get a little extra change because of the “holiday cheer.” Around this time you get the rich ass snobs going out on the street handing trying to look good. Every year this lady drives down Queen street in a red porche filled with stacks of 20$ bills. Gets out carrying a bag of bills and makes a huge scene making sure everyone sees her. She starts handing out bills. I never take her money. One time after I said no she left it in front of my bag. I didn’t touch it. The wind blew it all the way down there. She ran after it ….. didn’t come back. They come and then leave feeling good self righteous “How important, caring good people they are doing such a great thing for the needy” Then they go back to their lives forgetting us until the next year.
Its not that I don’t want the money. I don’t want charity. Those people who just want to look good or feel like they did something worthwhile, or feel guilty cuz they haven’t done anything “good.” They aren’t sincere.
Does it really matter? I can understand if people want to do something good. But why during Christmas? Why not any other time?
After being on the streets for so long It really seems pointless to me. People go to parties exchange gifts, get wasted. The day after Christmas the same people are on the street returning the gifts they got the other day and then go on to buy something else and …of course no one gifts a crap about me anymore.
Because Christmas is over.
Why? Whats the point of Christmas? An excuse to party, to get together with family? A time for people to do good things and feel good about it? For people to “pretend” to care by giving presents. Did they create Santa Clause for another reason to be “good during the season?
I can understand why We Celebrate New years or Thanksgiving.
But for Christs sake why Christmas?
