There are a few alternate realities that I often like to play with. To put itinto context, i,m a slender black man in his mid thirties but I can vividly 

picture what it,d be like to be a twenty year old white girl. Its' amzing how

with no effort I can float into another foreign body. My most common fantasy 

is that i work at some sort of shop, or maybe an ice cream cart and I;m bored a lot. 

I pretend I spend a lot of time reading hoping something amazing 

will happen to be, perhaps the store will get robbed or i,ll be the witness

to some elaborate government scheme, but most of my day involves smiling 

at people who dont really notice me. This oddly feels comforting; as if

falling out of my body has somehow granted me a respite from being at times

intimidating.

 i am too.   i imagine that I am not alone. That i can be a success. That i am not the failure my family expects me to be. So I pretend too. imagine i am other than myself. That i am confident and strong and ideal. but i am scared and lonely and trapped in my fear and insecurities. someone free ,me. someone tell me how to be. how does everyone know how to be? where did they learn? how can i be more like that? i wish i knew the right way. or maybe i should stop complaining and buck up.  i am a work in progess...

      uncertain, confused, often terrified...

i wonder what my 40-year-old self would say to me...

i sure could use the advice. 

Robin Parker: I live on E 7TH ST. and I am being harassed for two years from dog poisoning to building harassment I am looking for every kind of situation, every government official to help me, but they've let me down. Mayor Rosie Mendez has been notified about the situation with dog poisoning and neglected my needs. 9TH pre cinct is investigating it now and after two tears they're going to help me. One of my dogs had to be sent uptown to save her life. She had to have half of her teeth removed because of dog poisoning I could use any help I could get. The names of the board members who are trying to kill my dogs are P. W., S. W., and J. T.  

how do i begin.. this typewriter came at a perfect time when i was lookingfor one to use. i am pklanning to get a t attoo of a movie quote i particularly love that speaks volumes to me, and i need a typewriter to get

the ink right/ you may know the film almost famous. in rthe last scene, and the last line

russell finally comes to see william, thinking he is coming to visit peg

penny.

william dfinally has the chance to ask, and get an honest answer to the 

question,what do you love about music//...and russell answers..

to begin with, everything.

no union is moreprofound than marriage, for it embodies the highestideals of love , fidelity, devotion, sacrificd and family. In forming a marital union , two people become something greater than once they wer

As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marrisge embodies 

a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men

and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that  

they do repect it, respect so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment

for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness

excluded froom one of civilizatiobs oldest institutions. They ask for

equal dignity in thes eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that 

right. 

Now write upon the wall a sonnet; thereNext to the woman trappeed in paper,s doom.This place may be bare, but look, she is there-

squeezed out by the boundaries of this room.

feel fear's gentle and embracing caress,

In the lines that are so few to adhere.

The poet knows the ever-nagging stress

Of thd forms confines that glaringly sneer

In the face of bold creativity.

Now see beyond what the paper sees:

Give in and foster fancy fantasies.

Yet what fool indulges this insanity? He corrupts himself to yellow wallpaper,

Trappedw within margins of misconception.

homeless for years cause of drug addiction found my way to a Now life is better i am free from the shackles of addiction free to live my life

On this rain day when i was high i would of hated everything but because 

of a and my new found freedom life is grand i even on a cloud day

so now im sobriety i have a life i am employable i work for my self for 

many years i thought the world was out to get me now i know that because

i survived many years of destructive behaviors that i was being watched over thank u