The Center Park is my favorite place; way up at the top where there are the fewest tourists. I feel like a real New Yorker complaining about tourists. The best way to do it is walking behind them when they stop to take pictures, then you shout “Come On” and walk around them fast. I don’t think the point is to make tourists not take pictures of big buildings, it’s more like “Hey! Buddy! We’re not all on holiday here.”
I was never like this tourist taking photographs when I first came. I didn’t have a camera but down in Chinatown I bought cheap postcards of all the places I saw. I covered my small walls quickly. The buildings in the photos don’t scare me like the real ones. I walk fast down the streets where the building towers cover the sky; fast like a New Yorker. We have to walk fast enough to avoid falling buildings.
8 min @ Queens Library on 5.8.14
prompt lifted from Black Boy by Richard Wright
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