HAPPY NEW FEAR OF LOVE!
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
Art imitates life and vice versa.
To prove it, I saw
NYC garbage men on a break pitch ideas for The City Of Angels or Hollywood. I
was overwhelmed by the musky scent of success when I realized my childhood
dream to live life like a great American novel had begun to write itself.
This true-life story has everything but a movie studio
called Kitchen Sink Productions or Tin Hat Films. And, yes, it has books gather
dust at the NYPL. The trick to get kids and the FBI to read is open up with a
scene of a typewriter and paper spattered with brains
Gotcha
Zoom in overhead to a street at night in The South Bronx, a
place that Woody Allen would never think of filming one of his movies not
unless he wants to die young.
I have a gun in my hand.
Don’t say a word, you (expletive deleted)! Watch me kill the
audience. Watch me walk between parked cars and point the gun at a Puerto Rican
named Angel. Pop, pop, pop and Angel falls backwards against a locked building
door. He slides down ever so slowly.
Are you reading me so far, NRA?
Previously, the Puerto Rican and I got into a heated dispute
started by me. It was over nothing to get $omething by $elling a story to grab
grub and pay my rent. Only in New York can I get away with satire and to be
interviewed by Charlie Rose under the all-seeing third eye blind of Channel 2
News. I write this to Tweet Think Thirteen and---
THIS IS A SPECIAL BULLETIN!!!
NYPD will regret they never stopped and frisked me, a
handsome blond haired white guy who looks tailor made for Wall Street or for
orgies at the Playboy Mansion or for good old fashion Gay American family
values in the 21 Century. Well, I’m off
to Africa.
Hope I don’t get Aids!
I’m just kidding.
I’m white
ALL OF A SUDDEN, faster than anyone can say NO ONE ESCAPES
THE SPANISH INQUISTION, I was chased by a mob of angry Puerto Ricans all
looking like Gerardo Rivera after he had his nose smashed by Neo Nazis! Could
they be any madder if I had set the Puerto Rican flag on fire as seen on TV in
the final season of Seinfeld?
For legal reasons (like avoiding the death penalty), Angel
came back to life when I brought him a Bud. We laughed at the toy gun that
looked real in the hands of an actor who is destined to become the next Al
Pacino, an Italian who played a Puerto Rican.
Truthfully, I’m not white. I’m Pulp Puerto Rican Fiction
Made In The USA.
How good am I an actor for the next Fellini, film director
of surrealism?
I’m not an actor.
It’s been real.
Ciao, 2013
XOLOL
Art& Hot Text Copyrighted By Daniel Angel Aponte
Why is China LOL?
Saturday, November 23, 2013
The True Meaning Of Black Friday
Life After Media by Danny A Aponte
When I was a child, media was my first drug of choice in The
South Bronx of America.
Then one day, I OD when the better angel of my nature went
to Google Heaven
And now The Dream Police by Cheap Trick plays LOUD inside my
brain!!!
AIEEEEE! I’m having a better time than I ever did in the
real world!!!
Life movies on…
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
I died and went to Google Heaven
The Persistence Of Memory
Undercover cops
assaulted me as I was walked home from school activities that were designed to
build character or good citizenship. I suffered a concussion when one of the
cops forced my head into a brick wall that exploded with graffiti.
As blood crossed my face, they rifled through my belongings.
My bus pass and membership card in GO (General Organization
at I.S 155) drifted to concrete as one of them shouted,” F**k! It’s not him!”
They ran to their unmarked car, as I stood still in the middle of the entrance
of the building I live in. One of them stopped and looked back like he wanted
to say, “Sorry, kid”. Then they were gone. Quietly, I sat at the edge of my bed
with ice pressed to a growing head bump.
I almost forgot my homework on The Underground Railroad.
Years later, holiday vacation from NYU and homework to
create a tour book for the South Bronx began by guns pulled out by cops behind
squad cars. They yelled while I dropped a shoulder bag and lifted my arms up. I
was smashed against the back of a car and violently patted down by a white cop
while others looked through personal items. When he hit my crotch, I pushed him
several feet back with one hand. I turned and stared into the barrel of a gun
held by a black cop whose nostrils flared like a bull about to charge and gore.
I sensed an unearthly cold light of a stare from my mother’s other son, who,
minutes before, had tried to kill me with Colt 45 malt liquor beer. Had the
heavy bottle connected, my eyes would’ve been wrenched out, nose and teeth
shattered in a gruesome death. Possessed
by the demon Schizophrenia inflamed by Crack, he had ran with an awful shriek
to a coffee shop on Prospect Avenue where he told cops I had a gun.
The way they roughed me up was nothing compared to my
mother’s husband who belted me across my face and back when I was a boy. His
son learned this behavior so well he upset his father when he put me in a
chokehold and later attempted murder again that caused lacerations on my neck.
It’s hard to live in the real world that made me the captain of the USS
Escapism. Reality bitch slaps when his father tried to drown me in the bathtub
where I pretended to be Namor, the prince of Atlantis, a mutant from Marvel
Comics.
Once upon a time, I felt the mystery of life when I went
deep into the waters of Orchard Beach, the French Riviera of the Bronx. Unlike
other kids, I could hold my breath longer and went far for freedom. I saw
people as points of colors on sands of time and myself as washed up on the
shores of the future free from abuse, free to evolve into someone different,
someone who wanted to get others to where common sense was religion.
The oceans were near to flying in the heavens and second to
the mystery of the human brain that could eventually figure out how to walk on
water. Even though my mother is Catholic, I was never one of those kids that
prayed to a crucified Jew who suffered after giving people Universal Health
Care. I wanted to take The Son of God to the hospital and get Tetanus shots
like me when I stepped on a rusty nail that was hidden like a snake in the
grass in Saint Mary’s Park where I romped in my Lone Ranger cowboy hat and
silver cap guns, a gift from a merchant marine uncle who lived for the open
seas.
This how my holiday vacation from school ended and homework
resumes: I saw red-faced cops handcuffed my mother’s other son and take him to
Lincoln Hospital.
Merry Christmas, baby Jesus, and peace on Earth for children
of all ages.
Amen.
All Our Yesterdays, A To Z At The Library
Saturday, November 9, 2013
How To Pitch Nightmares To DreamWorks
An old stove was leaking gas in an old kitchen.
I fixed it.
Three days before Thanksgiving Day, in the year of super
storm Sandy that made many people lose homes to floods, the pipes of the sink
burst in an apartment my mother had lived in since the last days of Watergate.
There was a furious barrage of knocks on our door in the
morning.
The new landlords told her to move to the other side of the
building where long time residents were being concentrated. Democracy faded
into the courtyard walls recently painted battleship gray or the gray across
the waters called Riker’s Island Prison. We were practically shouted to move to
another old apartment not rent stabilized. We were harassed constantly. They
were like telemarketers calling at all hours.
We had our bathtub removed for a week and a-half in the
wintertime. For a month, we were cut off from the outside world when our
mailbox was ripped from the wall. Our complaints, added to a female US mail
carrier, failed to motivate the superintendent to fix the problem. He dangled
keys to another apartment devoid of stove and refrigerator.
Move in now and we’ll get them for you, I was told indifferently.
“Leave your furniture behind. I’m giving you bunk beds,”
ordered a Dominican employee of Paradise Management. The last time I heard an
offer of free bunk beds was in Schindler’s List, a movie that branded itself on
my mind. I think of the scene where peoples’ belongings were thrown out of
windows when our courtyard looked like the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten
Island. We were surrounded by strangers when the landlords brought in homeless
families to charge the city 2, 800 $ per apartment.
My elderly mother pays 488.29.
Still the Dominican did promise 500 dollars if we moved
quickly like the Indians that sold Manhattan for 24 dollars and trinkets. It
was an offer better than the previous Italian landlords’ final solution of
fixing the old building by soaking the rooftop with gasoline to collect on
insurance money. Babies were spared by the intervention of Blue Angels.
Home is not far from Happy Land where over 80 human beings
were burnt alive.
Across our bedroom windows, the funeral parlor is always
crowded with screams of those who lost loved ones. Where’s Jesus? Where’s The
Man of Steel?
On an eerily silent night, I opened the window and sensed a
sickening light scent of cremation that drifted from the remains of the
WTC. It had lumbered miles on mild wind
to remind us we are all connected as sure as the air we need to survive.
I have a Ken Burns on the brain mentality. There are no
great stories without heartbreak and no refunds for answered prayers.
“It was the worse of times…”
This is a mural for myself as well as afterimages of other
kids all gifted. At an early age, I learned to tattoo words and watched them
bleed in a paper garden of good and evil. The urban myth of hell was a real
city of illegal guns and roses. Optimism
was my painkiller next to Saint Joseph’s Orange Favored Aspirin For Children.
When I was a boy, I carried Anne Frank while shadows of
bullies and burnt-out buildings fell over us after school. At P.S 25, Mr.
Marks, my white-haired English teacher, a grandfather figure slightly hunched
with a burden of quiet grief, gave Anne to me to keep. “The torch has been
passed on to a new generation,” said the country’s first Space Age president.
This is my journal, an essay by images and painting by words..
Chapter 1: it was a dark and stormy night.
“We don’t publish
stories by minorities! Anything else,” a woman said before hanging up in a time
of great prosperity for the country because of the newly invented Internet. I
improvise with what she said like I did on golden trumpet in music class.
Writing on Word98 helped me recall a photographic memory in childhood. In an
sixth grade English class at P.S 161, I made a wish to live life like a great
novel, one that would read like the sci-fi of a great comic book. It should be one that breaks the law that
states there are no second acts in American lives and the lives of others
around planet Earth.
I finally returned to my Fortress of Solitude where I saw
Waiting For Super Man and Childhood’s End. This is The Hunt’s Point Public
Library, a place of many endings and new beginnings. This is where I found The
Lost Boys and A Winkle In Time.
This is the house of genius that helped me realize what I
was vaguely dreaming of creating. This is a thanks for my mother who worked in
a pen & pencil factory and drew me my first smile. Now I can fly in
cyberspace and aspire to be like a mild-mannered reporter working at a great
metropolitan newspaper. This story is really on finishing my homework
assignment to make a tour book to draw the highlights of our town.
Truth, justice and the comic books!
Here’s to our public library in The South Bronx of America Where
The Wild Things Are.
The End and here comes sequel.
How To Pitch Nightmares To DreamWorks by Danny Aponte of P.S
161
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