Is that God, I thought while being potty trained in front of an eye on a TV set in the time of the first space age president who said we go to the moon not because it’s easy but because it’s difficult.
I wanted to know more about God when I took a screwdriver to
the back of the TV that showed me how to reveal who The Wizard Of Oz really
was.
I saw a beautiful city made from glass tubes that glowed
with the color of golden amber.
I crawled into a TV set discarded in a backyard and looked
out to the burnt out buildings of The South Bronx. A vast wasteland was TV
believed the first president of The Federal Communication Committee.
I saw a cowboy from Death Valley Days ride out into The
South Bronx as President Ronald Reagan who promised to rebuilt a town that
basically was a homeless shelter for the working poor and those that looked for
work.
I came out of a dumpster across my second home called Public
School 161.
I had the wood to build my time machine for the science
fair.
I also built a
shoeshine box to set shop between a newsstand and The White House, an Italian
American supermarket on Prospect Street.
I made money to buy wires and mini light bulbs to be put
together with a soldering pen.
I was 7 years old with dreams of being a scientist.
At the age of 5, I invented a space ship made from a paper
cup before creating a sleek ship made from construction paper and copper
fasteners.
Years later, I tried to recover memories while working part
time on a garbage truck.
I found a Newsweek magazine on the street with my birthday.
On the cover was a picture of a boy in R.E.M mode or
dreaming.
It’s all I have in the way of a baby picture of myself.
I put it together with another discarded item on Global
Warming never knowing to use it for Homelessness Made Easy For Dummies
Creativity is a great mystery
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