The City Within

The first rays of morning sun warmed the walker’s goose-pimpled back. The man with freckles across his nose and cheeks smiled slightly as a shadow of his old-inner self slipped down a sewage drain on Tillary Street and reappeared on the sparkling cement walkway leading along Brooklyn Bridge Boulevard. In his thoughts, the world had [...]

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Food Stamp Secrets

One hundred and seven dollars was credited to my New York State welfare card this morning. Finally, I can stop rolling my own Top brand, joint-like cigarettes and buy a pack of American Spirit menthols. I must have throat cancer by now!
I call the shiny, blue and white Medicaid card my ‘New York Express Card’ [...]

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Working as Bloomberg’s House Boy

Having proven to be a parasite in Michael Bloomberg’s new Jerusalem, the city of New York has offered me redemption from blood-sucking Goodwill Industry’s ‘Back-to-Work Program’ and assigned me to work for eleven hours every week at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. If I do not work, the city will cut off my [...]

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The Starbucks Challenge

I took the Starbucks challenge this morning and failed to identify which was the new instant brand of coffee and which was the freshly brewed. Having purchased Starbucks coffee beans by the pound for the last decade, I was excited when I saw a commercial on television announcing an instant brand of my favorite joe [...]

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