in transit

i miss new york
mostly because
it is the only place where
i don't feel like i'm in transit
beside people trying to make some.
and when the hot sun heat
hangs over my neck-back i think
shit i want some new york.
i've never liked space & i've
never liked sweaty sun, &
i think i enjoy pressed
depression.
and stress.

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but i am also thinking about the sad difference between literature and film. how reading includes personal involvement, a mental investment into characters and setting, and metaphors, and seeing the world through the eyes of the "other". film is a physical process of sit and be fed. there is visible editing but always an audience is fed. films are often shared, and i think of the difference between reading internally and reading out loud with people. film is powerful, it is. but is lacks the ability to be as personal as the words on the page. yes, it can be chilling and hard-hitting - but rarely personal like a novel. still, i don't write it off. i just believe there are places to go.