Once upon a time in The Village "Weekend Street/Reflections # 234)

 

New York City

There she was, sagging against the smudged glass of an overpriced Greenwich Village wine bar, a fur hat that probably cost more than my monthly rent, her hand propping up a face that’d seen too many phonies—and, judging by the glazed look in her eyes, too many glasses of wine. 

The guy—some loping stranger with flipped-up collar and 1950s Elvis sideburns—ambled past, lost in his own search for something real amid the Village’s fake bohemian clutter. The street buzzed with hipsters, clowns, and posers, and I couldn’t help but choke on a wry laugh—here we were, chasing authenticity like a lost glove, while she was already three sheets to the wind, proving the joke was on us all.

                                     Have a great weekend!

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