Photo Credit — AleXander Hirka / Used with permission / On Broadway

It’s Real All Right

Even if it seems like a slightly questionable docu-drama

I don’t recall Cleveland being like this and I’m sure Lodi, Ohio (bless its heart) certainly wasn’t. But there’s definitely a bizarre edge to the simplest things I see walking down the streets of New York City. It might have something to do with all the movies that have been made here. Or maybe I just did more than my fair share of hallucinogens (well, that’s a given). It could simply be the toll of living in a plague for two years and counting.

Photo Credits — Remington Write and AleXander Hirka / Just an ordinary day in the city

But whatever it is, it is! I don’t even have to look for the weird in this city anymore. It walks right up and taps me on the shoulder whenever I leave my apartment. Wait. You’re right. The weird lives right in my apartment.

Photo Credit — AleXander Hirka / Used with permission

However, let’s admit that it’s kind of a given how often the bizarre and jarring are usually the…