Flashback from a Utica and Church Driveby
Hoodwinked and bamboozled by the images of glass at the Wall. The reason why so many FOB took the boat in the first place. Ask my pops, he tossed his die to the winds of fate, trying to cash out at the Wall. The swarmy pictures with that catchy logo: I + the fucking heart + NY, speaking just as loud as the neons on the Strip.
Yet no glassy store on 34th and 5th, instead they gave us a box on Church and Utica. Turn it into a business! "You can now walk with your head up in dignity! Sit at the table with your children and feel proud for the bread you provided your tribe." They wonder why we give them that quizzical "are you serious" look.
Can you blame the knee jerk reaction to get out of the shit zone? The stench and the experience of the antithesis, the flipside of the swarmy image, NYC unadulterated.
Yet no glassy store on 34th and 5th, instead they gave us a box on Church and Utica. Turn it into a business! "You can now walk with your head up in dignity! Sit at the table with your children and feel proud for the bread you provided your tribe." They wonder why we give them that quizzical "are you serious" look.
Can you blame the knee jerk reaction to get out of the shit zone? The stench and the experience of the antithesis, the flipside of the swarmy image, NYC unadulterated.
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