Glass Houses

There was a bum raving in front of the hotel: “these fuckin’ rich people are living in glass houses!  Can’t be throwing no fuckin’ stones!  You see what I’m saying!?  One more terrorist attack and they’ll be out of here!  Out of this fuckin’ city!  Runnin’ scared!  Glass houses, I tell you!  There’s one over on the West side Highway!  And another on the Lower East Side!  They even got one going up on the Bowery!!!”
     It was funny how the man’s metaphor suddenly became literal, as if he hadn’t quite understood it in the first place, or as if his brain was not firing on all its cylinders.  On the other hand, what with all poor people being priced out of their homes in the recent real-estate boom, it seemed also strangely apropos. (Copyright Ed Hamilton 2006)
(Photo: NYCEnvirons blogspot)