He took to Manhattan. It almost blocked out the noise in his soul. It made him feel like a man again. He walked drunken along its streets, passed new glass towers. The Lower East Side is looking a lot like the Upper East Side. He needed Manhattan. What he didn't realize was that Manhattan had already moved on.

"Every New Building
Breaks My Heart"

7" x 6"
acrylic on wood tile
11 May, 2007

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