how do you do it? do you sit around saying, okay dudes, let’s go out and mug someone today. let’s go out and terrorize. let’s bring along some bricks to shatter windscreens, and this knife from the kitchen table should we need to push a little farther. what is it? greed, cruelty, desperation, poverty, defiance, idleness? ineffective enforcement, poor regulation, corrupt police, weightless punishments, arrogant fearlessness? when you’re splitting someone’s head open or dragging them by their bag’s straps on a hard tar road, how many words do you use in your head and heart to justify what you’re doing?
so i was walking to the train station. in that ramp leading up to the turnstiles, i was swarmed by a bunch of kids no older than my Short Brother who’s 16 this year. they were selling some prepaid phone cards, all dyed hair and ratty jeans with dirty toenails, so loud and so enthusiastic. miss ah miss, want prepaid card anot, i give you very good deal laaa! miss, just one minute of your time only… their peers nearby were haggling good-naturedly with other passersby. i politely declined their persistence, but stopped nearby to watch them do their thing. many of them made sales in the fifteen minutes i stopped to finish my bubble tea, and they would pump their fists excitedly in the air. i admired their freshness and their energy. they were like little windmills in the sky.
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#1 reassurance is always good
#2 perfection
#3 genetics
#4 long lost
#5 progress
#6 blueberry analogy man
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#9 for the recession
#10 a special something i got from home, grabbed quickly from the hands of Kimo on 5th Avenue right before i left for JFK in a yellow cab. it’s kind of funny how things work out. but anyway this is a pink LG Ice Cream cellphone kindly ferried all the way to New York and back, for my delight and titillation. i am excited! i will be spending the next couple of weeks exploring every nook and cranny of this yummy phone. great timing because i left my phone in a foreign country last month and am currently phoneless. i’ve also never had a flip phone in my life, so i guess i better start practicing that head toss and phone-snap that so many ladies execute with such finesse.
#11 the toucan’s fish
#12 the salivary glands liketh
#13 it’s always christmas at number 45
#14 heirloom
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#19 i learned the word ’serendipity’ from book number 89
