March 21, 2003
3/21/03 New York, NY What
What are you supposed to do when your life is so disparate from the experience of others? You watch the news, you see an entire city being blown to shreds, you know that there are families huddled in basements praying for it to stop and yet you are walking around the East Village, where hip boys and leather-clad girls are laughing and flirting. You want to feel helpless and full of rage, but you also understand by now that those will do you no good either.
Two days into the Shock and Awe campaign, you have muffled experiences of both, but nowhere to put them. You can't possibly order the Tandoori Mixed Grill at Haveli's on 2nd Ave, and laugh with old friends, yet you do so anyway.
You think that after watching World Trade Center towers came down, the world would have enough of falling buildings. You think the world would have enough of silly love songs, but in both cases, you look around and see it isn't true.
Baghdad today under missile fire
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Ground Zero tonight as the fog rolled in