This picture of imaginative children with their homemade ads
for their hometown was taken in front of The Hunt’s Point Public Library, a
mansion for the Richie Riches in The South Bronx of America and beyond its
borders thanks to Cyber Space.
This scene puts me back in a classroom at New York
University.
On the first day of school, I was given homework to create a
tour book to draw tourists to a town far removed from luxury hotels for
millionaires and billionaires.
International students were asked to stand up to briefly
highlight tourist attractions.
Everybody applauded for everybody but not for me, a
recovering applause addict
What can I highlight about The South Bronx?
I had a marketing problem.
One wealthy well-traveled classmate looked at me and moved
to another chair far, far away. He practically went back to Switzerland and
locked himself in a bank vault before I went Bourne Identity on his arrogant
ass. Better yet, call me The Bronx Identity.
It’s hard for anyone to believe my report on a teacher that
went pale face like a ghost and her students that stared like I was dead man
walking the last mile in a Chinese prison.
I locked myself in the computer room to burn the midnight
oil for answers.
I love life more when the odds of a mission are impossible
to overcome.
I have insanely great ideas because I’m crazy. Don’t mess
with me.
These are the stories of our lives at The Public Library.
And we’re always working to get a better life for all.
Reading this means you’re on the same page
Now we make movie. That’s the answer.
Everybody happy.
Jane!!! Stop This Crazy Media Thing by Danny Aponte of
Public School 161
An essay on Freedom of Speech to sing songs like a canary in
a coalmine
Copyrighted in The South Bronx of Legal Graffiti from Here
To Eternity
LLAP
Photos by David Flores of The Hunt’s Point Express
