I stood hard against the tiled wall and made room for the rush of human traffic trying to pass me. I was thinking about insanity and the blindness of powerful people to hold sacred something that once had beauty and class.
Beauty and class are rare commodities these days.
I was in the bowels of Penn Station, somewhere between 7th Ave. and 8th Ave. Somewhere between 34th St. and 31st St. Somewhere below the giant oval that is Madison Square Garden.
Somewhere, somehow something was missing.
I was waiting for the Adirondack, the train that would take us to Albany where our car was parked. I looked around for the great wooden benches. All were gone. I had to wait inside an enclosed “waiting room” filled with plastic and metal seats. The fast food outlets all sold the same wraps and bags of chips. Somewhere, I’m sure, was a bar…
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