there is a cavity in new york

[lonster]

there is a cavity in new york. my mind goes back to it like a tounge again and again. it stays in my life when i see old episodes of law and order and old movies like men in black when i see the incisors in all their glory standing like a mountain, breathing life into the setting. funny, it inspires different emotions now.

there is a cavity in new york. i never noticed the presence as much before. it's like an old house you passed every day on the way to school. always grateful for the shade without even knowing it. the smell of musty old boards and the color of faded paint always reaching out to fill the senses and never seen until gone one day. we then run home unbelieving to find the old pictures we took never knowing what was posing as well as those we love and remember.

there is a cavity in new york. the orators are mystified. we feed on remedies of denial and disclaimer. the mortar and saliva cloak the cries and blood. the fee never equals the reckoning. the ibuprophen is feckless.

there is a cavity in new york. it remains, no denture can fill it. no muck can patch it.

we still see it. we still feel it

[the invisib1e hand]

well, then, I guess that settles that. Ironic, too, what with all the dentists around...

[listenhillary]

I hear hillary is a pretty big cavity

[rambo316]

The state of NY is like one big cavity itself.

[TheBigB]

The first hit will cause some hallucinating...work through it, it'll pass, mmmkay!

[BenLurkin]

Not dentists. He needs a keyboard repairman.

[DouglasKC]

there's a big canyon in arizona too. :-)

[TADSLOS]

NY is full of holes.

[atomicpossum]

[SamAdams76]

I still think Steve Martin's best movie was "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid." Not that Steve Martin made a lot of good movies but that particular one was good. It's a shame he did not do more like it. I liked the part where he was just "adjusting" her breasts.

[SuzyQue]

The WTC?

[the invisib1e hand]

I toyed around with my reply but it's true. I have walked by that thing every day for the last year and half, and I'm sick and tired of it. I imagine that people who have been seeing it for the past 4 1/2 years must be all the more fed up with it.

It's a symbol of failure and gridlock, that hole. The dead aren't honored by that, imho. The tourists and the gawkers...someone called the PATH train in the hole the "Disney ride from Hell." Maybe we should leave Disney in the sun belt, and put the World Trade Center back to work.

[SuzyQue]

If that's what he's talking about, I think his writing is pretty compelling. The grammar is atrocious, but maybe that's just a stylistic thing.

And - you're right, time to get on with it. A memorial, not a hole in the ground.

[Ron in Acreage]

I was there a month ago. It's become a cheapened tourist attraction with scumbags hanging around hawking glossy photos of what once was. They will do the Boston Big Dig proud.

[Gay State Conservative]

I hear hillary is a pretty big cavity

I think she's more like 180 lbs of the stuff that can collect in a cavity that goes untreated.

[listenhillary]

The longer the "hole" stays there the more the terrorists can say they won.

I'd like that to NOT happen.

[the invisib1e hand]

A memorial, not a hole in the ground.

Preferably a functioning, commercially viable development.

the hole screams indecision and identity crisis, impotence and insecurity.

[SuzyQue]

Yes, the post-modern, "progressive" view of America.

[martin_fierro]

[martin_fierro]