IRONY

=me....LOCATION = bus stop.

ACTION = thinking about what to have for dinner.

enter HIM.....homeless.....LOCATION = same bus stop.

ACTION = digging through the trashcan to locate something for dinner......

this homeless man i've seen many times on many occassions at this very bus stop.......

mostly sitting on the bench minding his own business....whatever that is......

staring off into his space.....never obtrusive.....mainly smelly.....and hungry.....

oftimes.....he's bent over the same trash can......FURIOUSLY digging for his food for the day.

TODAY- no different from any other when i've seen him here.....

but TODAY.....i pay attention......as does the man next to me.......

we stare as he digs furiously through the trash can to find

SOMETHING.....ANYTHING.....to eat...

which is ironic to me considering i was just mulling over the different possibilities

that lay in my refrigerator........

the look of DISGUST on people's faces....the people STANDING and SITTING around

at the same bus stop as I......and the HOMELESS guy.

THEY look at him w/DISGUST.....and i wonder WHY?

and i look at the man sitting next to me on the bench who is also transfixed on MR. HOMELESS

WONDERING if he shares the same thoughts.....

WHY do we turn away in disgust at homeless people?

BECAUSE they're HUNGRY......they're AGGRESSIVE....they're SMELLY.......

THEY'RE a REMINDER (in the this day and time of our economy) of what we could BECOME.

*maybe NOT to the extreme of digging through the trash can for our dinner*

BUT......in these times.......coupled with our "money mis-management"......

how many of US are so close to that? a PAYCHECK away? a LAYOFF away?

this economy has made us rethink and reprioritize!!!!

more IRONY as a mother of two walks up to the same bus stop

with her two small boys in tow......she looks down the street for the bus.......NOT COMING.

out of her purse..she pulls a bag of LAY'S POTATO CHIPS....PLAIN..... *i can tell

she hands the bag of chips to her two boys who FURIOUSLY dig to get their chips w/each bite.

the smiles on their faces as they taste the saltiness & crunch from the chip-

THIER DINNERTIME TREAT

the smile on HIS face (homeless man) as he strikes PAYDIRT

w/a half eaten bag of CHEESE PUFFS.....

the smile on HIS face as he tastes the cheddar & cruchiness from the puff-

HIS DINNERTIME/DESSERT TREAT

and the irony of the ping pong match of emotions as i swing my head back N' forth

between commuters smiling in glee at the two boys eating chips AND

the disgust in thier eyes at the HOMELESS MAN eating his cheese puffs.

IRONY......IN THE STATE OF THIS WORLD.

POST A PIC

the idea for this blog was borrowed from (busygirl/tumbler) and goes like this.....

go to your computer....your "PICTURES" folder......select the "FOURTH" folder.

pick the "FOURTH" picture- post the pic along w/an explanation...

so i went to my fourth folder (BLOG PICS)- selected the FOURTH pic and here it is......

ARTIST: YAW

*below is an excerpt from a review i did on YAW for the site i write for

www.muzicview.com

At first listen to a track by new artist YAW……. you are literally transcended back in time. Never to be one to get caught up into labels and categories (when it comes to music or life in general), it’s hard to not try to compare the voice that you hear booming out of your computer speakers when you listen. But as hard as you try, you can’t really pin him down to a specific category or genre of music……for me personally YAW is a cross between Anthony Hamilton, Lenny Kravitz, Al Green & Bilal….how’s that for a comparison? Of African descent, YAW’s music embraces both cultures (African & American) and is best self described as “an organic occurrence”. A couple of months ago, a mutual acquaintance introduced me to YAW’s music. Upon first listen to a couple of tracks, I felt like I was sitting in a movie theatre watching the intro to a Spike Lee movie….where the lead actor is sitting on that mechanism that glides them in front of the screen….and Terence Blanchard is playing the instrumentals in the background. The track “GOD” (one of my personal favorites) is a vocal tribute to his ancestors and “WHERE WILL I BE” is reminiscent of the opening of a Spike Lee flick. Having opened for such acts as ERIC ROBERSON & LIZ FIELDS…… YAW has also listed JAGUAR WRIGHT, FLOETRY, and KINDRED & AMEL LARRIEUX as some of his favorite performers. Some of his influences range from the hip hop influenced MOB DEEP, DEAD PREZ, MOS DEF, and PHAROAH MONCE to the throwback vocals of BILL WITHERS, MARVIN GAYE and STEVIE WONDER…which would explain the essence of his music…..”soulful…..telling of someone who has lived many lives belying his true age. Currently unsigned, you can download all of YAW’s tracks at www.Rhapsody.com or you can check him out at www.myspace.com/yawsmusic and find out where he’s performing next.