Thursday, September 2, 2010

New York Chronicles: Making Friends

The darkly clothed blob didn't make it as a broadway sensation and didn't want to go to jail. Not for that. Time and weather have avoided my face, it's not my fault I look young. Air expelled, he skulks heavy with sulking back to servile reality. I'm back in control. I remember I'm always in control. Before I'm yet fifty percent quenched another engages me. This time for my voice. An opening. I feel like a kid again, unable to deny. It's blown slightly out of proportion, a hand grenade detonates, a focus shrapnel shower. And everyone has friends. Sometimes friends are taken advantage of. It feels like a pussy wants attention near my feet. Better to ignore it. If you give them an inch it's not gay. Containers graduate on a muggy New York stoop. Martini glass to forty ounces to growler. To ensure the presence of guilt at dawn, I eat famous carbohydrates and I taste a little blood.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2010 at 11:16 PM

    Please, dear God, tell me more tell me more tell me more.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2010 at 12:18 AM

    It takes a lot of courage to just pack up and leave. Whether its for a day, a week , or months at a time. The courage to leave everything you know and have behind, to replace it (for a moment in time) with new experiences, unknown places, and not knowing what is in store for you is very admirable. With the uncertainty that nothing is gauranteed when you go back "home" is a complete risk.

    I think the "risk" you have taken to explore the world, is somehing that everyone should do if they have the means to do so. There is so much that one can learn just from going to a different state...even a different city. reading your posts I'm realizing that your learning a lot, and experiencing more, about people, places, cultures, and history.

    EVERYTHING you experience and learn throughout this trip will forever live with you for the rest of your life, and will change the way you look and believe things.

    I wish you the best of luck, tons of fun, laghter, and experiences!

    Omnea Hassan

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