Stories tagged “new york city”

  • In Memoriam: 9/11/01

    Dies irae, dies illa Like a movie with Godzilla On a Tuesday in September Something that we’ll all remember Pentagon and New York towers Ravished in a couple hours 93 in Pennsylvania Vanishèd in vengeful mania These attacks stemmed from the Base...

  • In Real Time

    From a transmission on FOX News, October 31, 2009: “We are just receiving word that a nuclear warhead has just been detonated on American soil. The—the bomb seems to have gone off over Washington. It appears that the entire federal district...

  • What's Up?

    Carl walked down the street in Philadelphia. Some dumb punks were graffitiing on the walls of a closed haberdashery, and the police were on the scene. Officers were getting sprayed with paint from aerosol cans while onlookers were shouting “Polic...

  • The City So Nice They Named It Twice

    A lady sporting a sandwich board advertising the jeans sale at Macy’s is improv rapping about it and snapping her fingers. She points in the direction of the store whenever someone stops for a second. Some aspiring rappers get in the faces of my ...

  • I Will Never Forget

    I was in NYC back in ‘02 where I had the opportunity to help out a Kids Outreach Program in the heart of Brooklyn. The program called Metro Ministries puts on a program for 25,000 kids in the city, and it’s a great place to volunteer. The m...

  • Capitali$m

    Dusk in New York hasn’t three pillars of ecstasy, nor the benign grace of white doves basking in the perfume of ponds. Dusk in New York gloams off tremendous window panes. Soft chic ends edge sharply, looming over brooding despair looking up at prosp...