I started writing a series of short stories post 9-11.
When I wrote this short story which is a ghost story -- like Jacob's Ladder but kinder....somehow sweeter, despite the terrible sadness, I had no idea that NYU would tear down St. Ann's and do so with an illegal air sale by the USPS, that a socialite mega millionaire Amanda, the peoples' great Burden, *evil city planner and Mike Bloomberg would be plead amnesia -- not remembering their job ---they serve the people and my neighborhood that I loved so much would be destroyed and not by terrorists from far away.
I woke up from a disturbing dream and I thought of betrayals this morning, so many, at the WTC site, to so many first responders, to much -- too exhausting to go on about but Mike Bloomberg and his puppets betrayed the people of New York and sold us out to greedy ruthless developers. I went to sleep in the East Village and woke up in a bad xerox of mid-town turning into a bad xerox of mid-town. The WTC remains an open wound claiming more heroes from slow motion 9-11 deaths...
When I read this story, I cry. Every year I grow older, the betrayals seem to grow as well. The love I talk about for my neighborhood, the last scene -- is now gone -- gone -- for me in so many ways over...If I read the story I still cry. The corrupt tsunami of community crushing development city wide destroyed our neighborhood. It is virtually unrecognizable and so many people and small businesses are now gone.
The firehouses except for the ones -- too many that Mike Bloomberg shuttered -- they are living memorials to those that took that Express to Heaven 9-11.
I have not yet wrapped my mind around Sept. 11. I see it as pathetic losers who wanted their claim to fame and they should not be given a platform in the Sept. 11 Museum -- if it ever gets built. I know first hand pathetic people have harassed me, attacked me as if doing so they can pretend they have some kind of connection to me that they don't. On the smallest level we have all experienced bullies and cowardice which go hand and hand.
Were sad day....I feel very angry and underneath the anger definite sadness and loss.
The Going is about dieing 9-11...
I feel very tired.
I wrote this before I wrote "The Going" and it starts slowly talking about how life changed after Sept. 11. I was way ahead of the game talking about how white collar crime is above the law and cost tax payers billions, that often they walked away either because they succeeded in operating "above" the radar or because prosecutors were not able to successfully prosecute.
Amanda Socialite mega millionaire Burden city planner = evil and Mike Bloomberg keeps here around because she is so much easier to dislike than bland Mike but both are guilty of aiding and abetting NYU with illegal air sale by USPS to NYU, illegal shell game of supersize buildings by Cooper Union by Astor Place's rotted dilapidated subway stations and the mass eviction abusing eminent domain by Columbia University of an entire neighborhood -- Manhattanville and could not have been done without the wicked witch of the East Village. The East Village and Lower East Side is unrecognizable and that is thanks to Mike Bloomberg and Amanda socialite mega millionaire Burden aiding and abetting their developer buddies. Are they going to serve on any of these real estate magnates' boards that pose as higher ed.? They already act like they are on the board.
