The Astral
“I jumped out of my fly-stained little bed and pulled on my shoes, corduroy trousers, and jacket and clattered downstairs and out the door. I walked with my head down toward Greenpoint Avenue. It was slightly warmer out here than it had been the night before, and the wind had died away to nothing. A bird chirped from God knew what tree. A cat slunk through the gutter past me, intent on breakfast. Bird and cat and I were alone out here, greeting the day together. Just ahead was a bodega with its ...metal grate up. I went in and got myself a cup of burnt-smelling coffee in a paper cup.My funds were small and dwindling. Luz was the breadwinner in our family. I was too proud, now that she had falsely accused me, to use any of her hard-earned money and was relying instead on the meager contents of the bank account I’d opened shortly after I had first arrived in New York and augmented with my paltry poetry earnings through the years. My small local original bank had been bought and sold and bought and sold several times over, so now, through no doing of my own, my wee little bit of money was held in the monster fist of one of the conglomerates.MoreLess
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