“I came prepared today.”
These were the words I heard as I walked up the subway steps in front of my neighborhood bodega. A woman was talking with a man sitting on the sidewalk with a nearly empty paper cup in his hand that rattled steadily with a handful of change.
When nearly twenty percent of an eight million person population finds themselves living below the poverty line, this situation is far too normal.
As I walked past I saw the woman give the man a granola bar. I don’t know either of their names but if I had to guess, I’d call them both “Jesus.”
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Words: Jim Kast-Keat
Image: Jim Kast-Keat
Music: Podington Bear
