I mean really pay attention
To the structural diversity on Montauk Street
There is a beautiful two car garage
Lovely brick and ivy
Villagey and warm
On the backside
Of what is storefront facing Linden Boulevard
Look
I mean really look
There is apparently fresh fish on 91st Avenue
After passing the beautiful brick ad
Cha. tt. We Make It Right
What is that cursive?
It's beautiful
Past the fence and gate
Just so worn by rain and snow and sun
Aged by slivers of weather
Keeping the character of the first half of the twentieth century
It's magnificent
Notice
I mean really notice
How even shoddy metal ages more gracefully than polyvinyl chloride
Even flaking chrome paint
Bubbles and breaks
Polyvinyl chloride softens a bit
Gets cuts and scores
Those cuts and scores fill with dirt
And still it looks usable
Long after it isn't
Even after it gets chalky
Silted and shaved down
It admits it was formed in haste
By an impatient master
Who walks away to read the funnies
And only needs to check the temperature and he is on his way home
See
I mean really see
Flagpoles as antennae
Concrete trucks as large drums for small fingers
Train yards as frozen races
Graffiti as Sanskrit
Windows as windows
Priority seating as seating for disabled persons
Buckles as butterflies
Acne as language
Can you see the narrow chambers of ventilation?
The monikers of dreamy math?
The relationship of witchcraft to zipper pulls and other tiny bits of
symbolic flair?
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3.26.10
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