Originating on stage as part of Chelsea Repertory’s E-merging Artists Play Festival, written by Angelo Berkowitz and directed by Anthony Marinelli, Walt Whitman Never Paid For It tells the story of a semi-employed, would-be poet (played by Berkowitz) and the contentious relationship with his hoodlum brother (Joseph Cassese) as they grapple over a Ukrainian prostitute (Amanda Greer) in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.