Why New York City is Not America

"Why New York City is not America: Because not everyone has a gun or thinks they need one, because the industrial smog that wafts over from New Jersey creates a sunset I want to lick off the sky, because people live in the subway, because some of the homeless live better than housed people in other cities.  Because people don't wish you 'God bless,' because God would feel uncomfortable among the godless skyscrapers of Manhattan."
Daniel Allen Cox, Shuck

New York Smell

Madison Square Park

"The entire city of New York smells like garbage and flowers. You can buy daisies in winter, dyed Kool-Aid colors and frostproofed with shellac. Rats arrange bouquets out of the junk people throw out."
Daniel Allen Cox, Shuck