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Friday, September 28, 2012

Times Square, September, 2012

I just returned from NYC.
Each day,
to get to the office,
I walked through Times Square.

People come from around the world
to stand in Times Square--
crowded, noisy, littered--
and take picture after picture
of gigantic advertisements.
That's all Times Square is--
enormous, stories-tall advertisements.

I don't get this.

Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.

Times-square-2012

Posted at 04:24 AM in Current Affairs, Mindfulness, Mysticism, Photography, Poetry, Spirituality, Wonder |

Tags: advertising, attention, awareness, consumerism, meaning, New York City, photography, poetry, purpose, Times Square, tourism, vacuousness

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