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95. Poetry and Illustration: Slice of Life

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Slice of Life ©11/01 poetry and illustration srk all rights reserved The Original Ray’s Famous Pizza now $1.75 a slice, on the Upper West Side. At the next booth, a heavy-set woman with blonde-streaked hair, baby stroller parked at the table’s edge, sits across from her companion, a dead man-mummy. As the woman eats her pizza, The wizened old face sleeps, Nestled, gray, into the collar of a down coat. K-Joy 98.3 Long Island’s Best Music Mix               This report brought to you by Boston Market…   The woman eats her pizza. The dead man sleeps, then opens its … Continue reading →

8. Poetry: Tina, Tina, Proud and Free

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I worked in a school located in a city housing project for 17 of the years I worked for the Board of Education in New York City. During this time I evaluated children for special education programs and interviewed parents to update social histories. I was privy to the most personal information; disturbing information from people who were suffering and in need. I was a vessel into which people dumped their pain. All I could do with what was given to me was write about it. When a parent of six children came in one day in a panic after … Continue reading →

2. Poetry: Dim Sum Paradise: Soul Food

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In Flushing, Queens, where reality transcends  time and place.  It is Asia. Easily. How could I ever leave New York? art and poetry©by the author, all rights reserved original entry: 3/28/07 Walk into the Kam-Sen Supermarket and you are in China.  People even use Chinese currency. There is a sea of scaly glistening fresh fish, hot sizzling delicacies, lacquered ducks hang in the window.  Every Asian sauce imaginable is in one of the maybe 10 aisles, every tea, soup, bags of little dried silver fish and shrimp, dessicated chestnuts, frozen confections with ridiculous translated names.  Happy Mouth. You Taste.  Rice … Continue reading →

49. Freddy Osborn, Kansas City, 1936 Part II

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Yesterday I mentioned that something caught me at that exhibit and didn’t let me go; there were several front pages of  The New York Times   from 1936.  The first grabbed me, the second one hit me.  Here is the previous post. The pages both had large articles about Robert Moses opening a new swimming pool. However, on the first, in the lower left corner, was the following news: Hitler had decided that his army should no longer wear blue, the color of past oppression; hence, the Nazi regime decided to switch to green. And then I thought: if I could … Continue reading →