The Last City I Loved: San Francisco
One part of me will always be on my roof in the Sunset District, smoking with my human butt on a damp spot, my cigarette butt about to rest on…
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The Last Neighborhood I Loved: Rockaway, Queens
Late summer 2005 and everything’s under water. The news warns us that New York City could be the next New Orleans—flooded subways, ten thousand shattered windows.
The Last City I Loved: Washington D.C.
DC is traffic circles, non-working fountains in some circles’ centers, jammed downtown corridors and quiet Anacostia neighborhood streets no taxi driver wants to know after midnight. It’s Muslim taxi drivers unfurling…
The Last City I Loved: Dublin
When an Irish person up and leaves for the United States, oftentimes the party thrown in their honor is referred to as an American Wake.
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The Last City I Loved: New York
I liked the place; I liked the idea of the place, was in a fortune cookie I once ate while living in New York.