Choir Conducted by the Devil

"New York sounds like a choir conducted by the devil. And that's on a good day."
Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

River that Runs Both Ways

"I wonder whether, if aliens dropped down in their spaceship right now, right here, on this rooftop, and they looked out over all of New York, the Emerald City, the Promised Land, gleaming around us, would they think, 'What a piece of work is man,' or 'What a fucking piece of work is man'? or would the aliens, in their infinite wisdom, with their intergalactic travel and their spaceships and their telekinesis and their superior intelligence, would they understand, would they know, that we are a river that runs both ways?"

Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

Worst Kind of Addiction

"New York is the worst kind of addiction. The poverty-stricken kind. The kind where you can't afford enough of whatever it is you need and so you stay needle sick forever, constantly searching for just one little hit to keep you going without ever feeling the crest of a real high."
Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

Forever and Ever

"New York is never fucking finished. The nonstop The nonstop thrum-thrum-thrumming of jackhammers and the clanking of a new scaffolding being put up or taken down and the cranes that dangle in the sky like the sword of Damocles. It's always being demolished and rebuilt and demolished and rebuilt, forever and ever and ever."
Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

Where Bad People Do Bad Things

"New York is where bad people come to do bad things. Look at all the wonderful weirdos! Those weirdos aren't so wonderful when they molest you openly in the subway and no one says a goddamned thing."
Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

Agent of Apathy

"The world is indifferent and uncaring and New York is its agent of apathy. New York doesn't give a damn."
Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

Bad Investment

Financial District (Pixabay)

"New York will take all your money and all your kindness and all your love and will keep it for itself. There is no return on your investment."
Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

Orchestra

Times Square (Pixabay)

"New York is an orchestra in a constant state of warming up. It never, ever finds its tune or any semblance of a melody."
Dana Czapnik, The Falconer