Jeffrey Estrella
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The Book of Time
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Leo Tolstoy During the bright morning light over the central complexes of the inner city, in the middle of the ravages of daily street crime and poverty, in the mid-way up the right-side of a building of a multiple-story public housing project, a destitute population prays for peace and prosperity while a single noisy and messy apartment lies at the end of a hall. In this one-bedroom unit on the twenty-first floor filled with dirty floors and walls covered in grime, loud hip-hop music blasts into the hallway from a boombox reminiscent of the 1980’s urban street culture. Strewn about the apartment are empty Chinese food containers, potato chip bags, soda and juice containers, and many alcoholic drink bottles including wine, beer, and spirits filling an overflowing garbage can.
By Jeffrey Estrella3 years ago in 01