New York
Published November 29, 2024
I was in the line to check in, in England still and American extraversion was already here.
I didn't want to talk but the ease and naturalness of American extraversion quickly hit me.
Ah, American extraversion. This is what human interaction can be.
AMERICA. Even the introverts are extraverts.
I had a scratch on my hand.
I bought some trash calories and a can of sugar and coffee at Boots.
It was nearly bedtime anyway. Early afternoon. I hoped the plane was quiet and the people around me had some levels of decency and sense.
Angels exist.
They wanted to sit next to each other. I agreed. Middle seat swapped for window. A great and mighty big blue Atlantic all the way through.
The last time I was in America was before the pandemic in 2019 and it was summer.
I felt uncomfortable then. In my Vietnamese ex-girlfriend’s t-shirt (the one she used as a dress) and a feeling of ickiness within my skin.
I don't know why. There was a bubbling metallic angst inside me.
I saw Twice in New Jersey and watched Liverpool at Yankee Stadium. I had a really great night of booze and weed and friendship. But New York didn't feel AS magical as previous visits, the magic was there but not constant! It was more akin to the fractured magic of my first visit in 2006 than the electric insanity of 2013. Electric Insanity!!!
This time around I felt that feeling of being in America. Of being in New York City. Immediately. The steam rose across the setting sun and the skyscrapers of Manhattan were waiting for me on the horizon.
It was election day. Tuesday November 5th 2024. Donald John Trump versus Kamalalalalala Devi Harris. By the early morning hours of November 6th, America and the world would know just what future it was getting.
I checked into the hostel to the aged face of a woman that used to be hot. Sad. She was a bitch too. The personality of a once hot woman turned ug. Some of the worst. But I didn't care.
I stayed here in 2013 and had a terrible time. Then I moved to another hostel close to Central Park and had a fucking awesome time. I chose it now because the facilities were great and the location was perfect. And I didn't care for anything too social.
There was no buzz about the election on the streets of Manhattan.
A mix of quiet acknowledgement that Trump had the momentum and he'd probably win it. And the fact that New York City is a paradox, both America's largest and most important city and at the same time very separate from the USA. It's a distinct country itself - a city state within the American union.
If you don't know by now. Trump won. Lol. Beautiful.
I went to bed in the early morning hours. And hardly slept.
The next morning I headed to the South Ferry terminal for the Staten Island Ferry. New York was hot, not boiling, not muggy humid, but hot. In the mid-twenties in early November. The fuck!?
Climate change is a wonderful thing.
As I boarded the boat I spotted a building not too far in the distance.
From this angle it looked like a new set of twin towers had been built. They weren't, they haven't. But it looked like that.
We passed the teeny tiny, really way too small, shoulda been bigger,
gotta replace with a bigger green bitch Statue of Liberty and hammered on to Staten.
Water was blue, sky was too. Boat was fun. Boats are fun.
Out of the terminal I went to the nearby mall and Shake Shack. Ate a chicken burger, fries and drank a coke. Outside I flirted with a couple of nice Asian ladies, college students, and then a hot blonde American with an ugly friend. Then I went back to Manhattan.
After the ferry I walked to the Brooklyn Bridge.
There were so many hot bitches on the bridge, Hot Bridge Bitches, and I was very happy. A Hispanic one took her top off and swung her arse from side to side and gave me looks. That was nice. Her boyfriend also gave me looks.
It was my second time on the bridge and the first in daylight. Everything had a pink-grey filter to it. Sand-gold brick and perfect lines of steel wire.
Brooklyn was great, but I was more excited about the bridge up river.
The Brooklyn Bridge gets all the fame and love, and apparently all the hot bitches too, but The Manhattan is the king, The Manhattan is the queen.
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