Nectarine

Walon's speech in "The Wire":

Well, hell, you all know I'm Walon and I'm an addict. (Hey Walon.) And the fact is that I wanna be clean today more than I wanna be high. (...all right.) It's good to be here. Hell, it's good to be anywhere clean, even Baltimore. I been clean a few 24 hours now, and I'm still dead certain that my disease wants me dead. Yeah, I'm in here with you all, talking shit about how strong I am, how strong I feel, but my disease is out there in that parking lot, doing push-ups on steroids waiting for the chance to kick my ass up and down the street again. Scars on my hands, on my feet two bouts of endocarditis, Hep C and what not knocking down walls and kicking out windows in my liver. I lost a good wife, bad girlfriend, and the respect of anyone that ever tried to loan me money or do me a favor. Pawned my pickup, my bike my National Steel guitar, and a stamp collection that my grandad left me. And when it was almost over for me and I was out there on them corners with not a pot to piss in, and anyone that ever knew me or loved me cussing my name, you know what I told myself? I said 'Walon, you're doing good!' I surely did. I thought I was God's own drug addict. If God hadn't meant for me to get high, he wouldn't have made being high so much like perfect.