Near Enemy (2015)
“Next day.
Daybreak.
Skyline bakes under the sunrise.
Mercury tickles triple digits.
Sidewalks shimmer. Asphalt bubbles.
Heat wave’s here.
Start the day with the same simple thought I went to bed with.
Save Lesser.
Make like a champion.
Then be done with it. All of it.
Boonce, Bellarmine, Shaban, the whole lot of them.
Get back to being who I really am.
Just a bullet.
I collect Simon and Mark, then we all head to the pier and board my boat, and I point the bow toward Manhattan. Boat’s nose bobs ...as we skirt the wake of passing barges. On the other side, I deliver Simon and Mark to Canal Street. Direct them toward Chinatown.
Then rev the outboard again and steer myself north toward Times Square.
Meanwhile in Battery Park City.
On a piazza by the waterfront. A crew sets up a dais. Erects barriers. Hangs bunting. Fits steel bars into steel joints.
Builds a stage.
Big debate today.
Bellarmine versus the mayor.
Race now running neck-and-neck.
Dead heat.
Fresh Post screams from nearby newspaper boxes.MoreLess
Daybreak.
Skyline bakes under the sunrise.
Mercury tickles triple digits.
Sidewalks shimmer. Asphalt bubbles.
Heat wave’s here.
Start the day with the same simple thought I went to bed with.
Save Lesser.
Make like a champion.
Then be done with it. All of it.
Boonce, Bellarmine, Shaban, the whole lot of them.
Get back to being who I really am.
Just a bullet.
I collect Simon and Mark, then we all head to the pier and board my boat, and I point the bow toward Manhattan. Boat’s nose bobs ...as we skirt the wake of passing barges. On the other side, I deliver Simon and Mark to Canal Street. Direct them toward Chinatown.
Then rev the outboard again and steer myself north toward Times Square.
Meanwhile in Battery Park City.
On a piazza by the waterfront. A crew sets up a dais. Erects barriers. Hangs bunting. Fits steel bars into steel joints.
Builds a stage.
Big debate today.
Bellarmine versus the mayor.
Race now running neck-and-neck.
Dead heat.
Fresh Post screams from nearby newspaper boxes.MoreLess
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