Notes jotted on a coaster while sitting in a bar @ 5th & 34th on 01.16.06
Darkness falls on 5th Ave. and 34th and people hurry hurry by on the way home to evening work to meet others they know or want to know while two white men in gloves and knit hats stop handing out flyers for an internet café and a restaurant and neither see the still lit cigarette rolling by dropped by the girl in heavy make-up and black plastic coat who passed and puffed as a police car with lights and siren screamed by the entrance to a souvenir shop crowded with Japanese tourists buying hats and postcards while the double-decker bus passed the Brinks truck taking the day’s take from a Wendy’s and Papaya Dog and young girls laugh arm in arm as they hurry to a movie and a business man in tight wool overcoat eyes them with one hand raised to signal a cab that he wants to go home and the bike messenger chains his wheels for the day’s last job.
Darkness falls on 5th Ave. and 34th and people hurry hurry by on the way home to evening work to meet others they know or want to know while two white men in gloves and knit hats stop handing out flyers for an internet café and a restaurant and neither see the still lit cigarette rolling by dropped by the girl in heavy make-up and black plastic coat who passed and puffed as a police car with lights and siren screamed by the entrance to a souvenir shop crowded with Japanese tourists buying hats and postcards while the double-decker bus passed the Brinks truck taking the day’s take from a Wendy’s and Papaya Dog and young girls laugh arm in arm as they hurry to a movie and a business man in tight wool overcoat eyes them with one hand raised to signal a cab that he wants to go home and the bike messenger chains his wheels for the day’s last job.