I Heart My Homeless Gay Junkie

I ran into my favorite gay homeless junkie today! I thought I'd already written about him on here, but I searched around and couldn't find anything.
I first met him at the LES needle exchange. He's tall and has big buggy eyes and long hair. You could tell he was pretty handsome at one point before the drugs really took over his body and he got that oily, leathery skin that comes with the territory. I could feel him checking me out from across the room while Rambo: First Blood II played on a huge flat screen TV in the rec room (how come the harm reduction center has a giant flat screen and I don't?) when he finally made his way over to me and complimented my tattoo.
"Thanks," I said.
"I've got two," he said. He rolled up one sleeve and showed me something nondescript like a skull, I can't even remember what it was, it was that boring.
"My other one is right here," he continued, proceeding to roll up his pant leg, never taking his eyes off of me, while he revealed an upside down triangle with a rainbow inside it on his lower calf.
I burst out laughing and he winked at me and THANK GOD my drug counselor came out and called my name so the conversation couldn't go any further.

I ran into him again two weeks ago, at night, walking on 1st Ave. I didn't recognize him, I just knew some homeless guy was following me and cat calling. I didn't realize it was the same guy until he was walking almost side by side with me and said, "Nice tattoo, check out mine."
I turned to look at him and he was shuffling along beside me with his pant leg rolled up, showing off his rainbow triangle again. I cracked up and said "Dude, you already tried that trick on me once, it didn't work then and it's not gonna work now."
"It's not a trick," he said, slightly insulted. "It's a move."
"It's still not gonna work," I said, but in a friendly sort of way. He followed me to Houston and I was able to ditch him there.

I saw him again today on Allen Street. He was in the midle of asking me for spare change when he recognized me and just said "Aaaaaaahhh" with a big grin on his face.

He's really starting to grow on me. But don't worry, I'm not in my twenties anymore so there's no chance of me dating him.