April 09, 2004
A Good Friday.
We walked past the windows on madison avenue and looked at the clothes without price tags covering the mannequins without faces.
We looked at the grins on the doorman with a pink silk tie in the spacious floor plan, and beautiful faces covering the magazines at the corner stands with white teeth and manicured hands.
We looked at the covers that cover the world that we judge it by.
The world trade site sat gaping like missing molars from the jaw line of the city. We stood at ground level, leaned our faces through the metal fence, and stared in silence.
It was my first time seeing it with my own eyes and
not from helicopter views from television news crews.
It stretched past my peripheral in both directions and sunk into crushed concrete and frayed re-bar like broken enamel and nerve endings from back alley fist fight or a dental procedure gone very wrong.
I stood there silent in the sunshine and was reminded it was for real and that this whole country was in the back alley fist fight and a procedure gone very wrong.
On the steps Federal Building we discussed the marble monoliths and corinthian columns decorating the central nervous system of our fist fighting economy.
The 5:00 bell from the trinity church steeple echoed through the narrow concrete canyon. It rang like an innocent reminder
that Jesus had died
and it was quitting time
to all the money on the inside
of the marble walls that never stops churning.
On Canal Street we moved with the masses like lava flows on the volcano videos on the nature shows down canal street and its third world sidewalks and subtitled shop signs.
Humanity hemorrhaged into the streets filled with styrofoam and cellophane wrappers from fake gucci sunglasses
and Vietnamese and their bootleg handbags and DVDs.
The Brooklyn Bound L Train Platform sloped downhill toward the East River. Had it not, the urine pouring out of the man standing in front of Stephey would have puddled up in between our feet.
We went backstage in Brooklyn, crashed Mid-Town in Manhattan. And somewhere in the was dark we found ourselves like in so many other past places,
where all the boys were overdressed
and all the girls would taste like cigarettes.
And the room was too dark so see too closely
and we talked too loud to listen too carefully
and drank too much to think too clearly about it all.
And with dry eyes and ears ringing, we tipped the taxi, door dinged the Jag on the drivers side, and listened to the homeless singing. We talked about friendship on barstools with take out hot wings, picasos' rose period, girlfriends, and central park swings.
And as dust settled my heart was still beating
and we were still smiling
and Johnny Cash can still be heard on the jukebox on 8th ave.
and the whole world was happening and i was breathing and i hoped Pittsburgh was sleeping safely and i was living my life and i was trying to remember it because it will never be that way again, sitting across the table from my friend at 3:00 a.m. over a bowl of miso soup.
This dude has got the skills to pay the bills~!
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