7th avenue south Archives — NOTES ON NEW YORK

NYC Pride March 2018 (Part 5)

As float after float passed with the markings of some corporate sponsor, a dulling drag whittled away any exhilaration I could muster.

“People have the power.”

“Then the music went off, and the bar was full of cops, the bright lights came on, and we were all ordered out onto the street….”

“There’s a beauty ’bout the morning. Things are clearest when they wake.”

“Yey, on the lea, the rising wind blows.”