thanks

The sun is at this weird angle now, where everything, even the morning seems like early afternoon.

There's a bustle on this street.

There's movement.

And this kid is laughing at everyone. Thanks little man, making fun of all the regular working people. What are you doing, by the way, all by yourself, entertaining me and the rest of the world perhaps? Oh your mom is walking the dog behind me, and I don't even know you. But you are making fun of the older woman who is asking me how to get to Broadway, when its in clear sight less then a block away. "Excuse meee? Do you know where..."

...you mimic her scratchy voice, look at me and crack a smile, then duck into your expensive (or inexpensive) huge rimmed, purple clothed Yankees hat. Whispering to the dog, then doing splits and jumps all over the crowded sidewalk full of business people that are coming or going to the happiest of hours. I look back and your mom has the most calmly embarrassed yet contently understanding faces I have seen in a while. The sun sets early on this street.