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THREE BLOCKS AND TURNING

Sweatshirt salesman tour guide

Hawkers. Most predominantly people of color

Bridge This Way, Park that way

Have you ridden the Ferry?

A village of colorful caps hanging dangling, blowing in the breeze

one sale, many more passing by

An old student in white with Shades marching

Custom house siege. Elegant History of another time and space while dealing with present-day social issues.

Jam Jam. A typical rush hour traffic jam masks a deadly plot of death and destruction in tunnels that run beneath the sea.

A child's stroller, bent and alone

See the elderly couple finding rekindled love on a day trip to Manhattan, sun stinging their wrinkled, crinkled, twinkling eyes.

Bowling Green 45. No idea why that caught my attention, but it did.

Ah, cave paintings on an urban wall names, places, and people from long ago or yesterday.

A ball.

A man remembers the one good time he had with his estranged father at a baseball game so many long-lost years ago. That one came quickly with remembrances of my unseen dad.

She's blonde and too light to be black.

Speaking of Flashback, an anti-immigration Advocate learns a harsh lesson when they are thrown back in time to relive the treatments their ancestor suffered oh so not so long ago

Decades hardly matter much these days.

Does it matter now?

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This was not real poetry. Unless one considers poetry to be a jigsaw jumble of words and unconscious streams of thoughts and ideas leaking or just running and splashing upon the page

One day, as an exercise with my students, I walked for two or three blocks and jotted down things that caught my eye.

One or two, I even let the thought drift a bit to see where it would take me to ask and answer my favorite two-word question: what if?

That's the power and magic of being a writer. Being an artist. Every day, there's something to reflect on or to reflect on.

So what will you write today?

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Best,

Alex Simmons

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