30 DAZE
by Ben Robinson

 New York City 10-11-01

 Upside down, and backwards...look at the one's and zeros...kind of funny that this is binary information, and the date, and the post modern cackle of what's going on. All the numbers are silly and screwy and fraught with interpretive iconography of a larger plan...one that must come, because evil is upon us.

Everything starts by everything stopping. Nothing moves...money, happiness, regular life with a coffee with friends at the cafe. Nothing to do except the normal.

New York City is comprised of 5 land masses: Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Today we New Yorkers are unified. Our town got hurt. Our Mayor is a hero. We will be stronger. Right now, nothing works, including the air downtown.

One close friend, who has lived in Jerusalem, recently said to me, "OK, its Israeli high counter intelligence time. Bottled water only, the whole drill. Hit it." I don't think my friend is kidding.

Our arrogance was our weakness. Now is the time for cleverness. Real clever. So clever, that they, like our recent experience, do not see it coming.

I am safe. Surrounded by Houdini, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, The Marx Brothers, Charles Chu paintings, a very intelligent parrot...all my troops.

New York City, America, and this planet will never be the same. We are all at war. WWIII? One would hope it would not become the Middle East and parts of Indonesia against the rest of the world. But some radicals believe that a fight could be won by the Mid East and Indonesia.

This war, will be fought by bombs. The next one will be fought by stones. Get it?

No one wins any fight.

1000 years from now, if anyone ever reads this, if there is an "anyone" and this writing exits, will we look upon trust the same way ? Is trust only for suckers? At this point, trust no one.

If the volume gets too high, there will only be silence left. Nothing moving on this floating blue ball.

The people who support co-existence must prevent those from their path to no existence. That is the ante. To be, or not to be. Indeed that is the question right now.  

Me? I'm going to the gym. It's the only cure for the insensitive and careless media.

At this moment, all we have is the moment, so would do well to enjoy it.

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