"A toothless woman screams. A legless man lights a pipe. A woman with a leg cast encrusted in grime rolls past in a desultory manner, toward and then away from several men also in wheelchairs, one of whom's foot is so badly infected my groin contracts and feels flash-burned."

Scene at the open-air drug market on San Francisco's UN Plaza, two days before the recall of SF DA Chesa Boudin