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Friday, January 30, 2009
I'm Just Not Sure Offhand if That's Staten Island or New Jersey
I'm working in a fancy downtown office building for a while, for ProPublica. Here's a view from the 23rd floor conference room.
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5 comments:
i love those water towers they have on the buildings in NYC. Great choice of colours, as always
like the composition and colours.
Wow - what a dizzy height, but nice sketch
light is well done here Jason.
reminds me of a poem I read in high school -
Hotel Room, 12th Floor
This morning I watched from here
a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect
the Empire State Building, that
jumbo size dentist’s drill, and landing
on the roof of the PanAm skyscraper.
But now midnight has come in
from foreign places. Its uncivilised darkness
is shot at by a million lit windows, all
ups and acrosses
But midnight is not
so easily defeated. I lie in bed, between
a radio and a television set, and hear
the wildest of warhoops continually ululating through
the glittering canyons and gulches –
police cars and ambulances racing
to the broken bones, the harsh screaming
from coldwater flats, the blood
glazed on sidewalks.
The frontier is never
somewhere else. And no stockades
can keep the midnight out.
Norman MacCaig
Thanks, everyone!
And thanks especially for sharing the poem, Stu. That's why I moved to New York, right there, for better or worse!
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