There are those who think and there are those who shoot. Which way will the country go?
This way?
Or that way?
The aestheticization of violence sure is a worrisome sign….
Much help out there to answer this question (if you want to avoid stepping into that truck and getting proselytized.)
You could rely on this:
Or on this: 
Or do this:
Unless you’re a cynic and believe this:
God is laughing – written small enough to show a certain uncertainty by the writer?
For free health advice you do not have to look far. However, parsing the message is already challenging if you are of sound mind – how would you ever do it during a panic attack? Hold your breath or breathe normally? Hold something else while you breathe? Hold for half a minute???? Relax while you figure out where one word ends and the next starts? Hm.
Good that I was wearing sneakers. Fleet feet required to run away from trite exhortations.
Photographed, no less, a street block apart.
And then this: 
hopefully a doubting Thomas and not the same tagger contradicting herself.
This about covers my reaction to the above sentiments…..
The Writing on the Wall
· Unstoppable Gentrification ·
Last week was devoted to Holocaust poetry and resistance, a difficult topic. So I thought this week we’ll go a little lighter with some messages picked up by the wayside. Do I hear a sigh of relief? You are not out of the woods, yet!
The texts often reflect the world as is – and we know what that means.
The displacing parties, however, can ease their conscience by leaving alms…..
I walked by that station on the Lower Eastside several times, and there was always a new drink. I wonder how desperate someone must be to pick up a bottle not knowing where it came from.
