Saturday, June 14, 2025

Who let the dogs out? Nov. 13, 2024

  

I pause to look at the dogs run, these tiny spaces of gravel and phony grass, deposited at the foot of luxury towers, owners greeting each other as do their dogs. I always stop to watch, the big dogs greeting small, as the owners sit on cold benches to wait out the moment when their beasts release all they’ve stored out all night and they (the people) can get on with their lives, strip to work in Manhattan, poor kids can’t afford to attend, all needing to wait for what needs to be done gets done, stern faces pretending they are there for some other reason, suffering the delay their pets impose, anxious, angry, desperate to leave.


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