{"id":80,"date":"2008-02-03T02:43:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T02:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/02\/home-miserable-home.html"},"modified":"2008-02-03T02:43:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T02:43:49","slug":"home-miserable-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/02\/home-miserable-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Home Miserable Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Forbes, New York\u00a0City is the 4th most miserable city in the nation, after only:<\/font><\/span>
\n1.\u00a0 Detroit, Michigan
\n2.\u00a0 Stockton, California
\n3.\u00a0 Flint, Michigan<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/font>The miserable reasons include the average commute time, housing costs, income tax rates, crime statistics, and weather.\u00a0 Read the full list of miserable criteria here:<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/01\/29\/detroit-stockton-flint-biz-cz_kb_0130miserable_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=15000<\/font><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/font>For awhile I’ve been working on\u00a0a series of poems called “Home,” considering all the different homes I’ve experienced and what that means.\u00a0 I’ve lived in the 4th most miserable city for 12 years now.\u00a0 I’ve had many different homes within this home, all rented for too much money (of course!) and some more miserable than others (I heard\u00a0WAY too much of\u00a0one roommate over\u00a0a half-wall divider thing……)\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/span> <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Some of my NY Home Poems focus\u00a0on the miserable (that time my door was covered in yellow police caution tape) some on the mundane (dishes dishes! toilet paper…) some on the exalted or curious.\u00a0 This is obviously an interesting city to\u00a0call home\u00a0as a practitioner, with the daily…um…second to second, assaults of craving and aversion.\u00a0 Its a great place to\u00a0practice, and a difficult one, too.<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>For now\u00a0I will stay in NY.\u00a0 <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span>Because Suburbia, USA still seems more miserable to me.\u00a0<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font>
\nwilliamsburg<\/span> primal\u00a0 (home poem #11)<\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/span>
\nblack inked tattoo<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>silver club piercing<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>bone bare beat base<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>chanted over <\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>with poems –<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/span>
\nin some cave art graffitied bar<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>i step into <\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>heavy boots<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>step out of <\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>wide open skies<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>of stars and bugs and night<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

oh brooklyn<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/span>
\ni can hear <\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>the space between my head and those notes<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>i can hear<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>the space between your round form and <\/font><\/span>manhattan’s sharp spires<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>i can hear<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>my breath roar down berry on the cold.walk.home.<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>brooklyn-<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/span>
\nthe kids on the corner<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>gather sticky as tar<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>tribal territory marked<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>south<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>north-<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/span>
\nyou wear the map engraved on your leather back<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>war paint and beads galloping on the L<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>to some definition of home<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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