RETIRED ARTIST WHO HAS RECENTLY MOVED TO NYC TO ENJOY WHAT TE CITY OFFERS

 RETIRED ARTIST WHO HAS RECENTLY MOVED TO NYC TO ENJOY WHAT THE CITY

 OFFERS.

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MUSEUMS: $32 fee...

GALLERIES:  closed, moved to Chelsea )

SO GO TO CHELSEA:  (Too far, need to take a bus and then walk )

PARKS, (Too cold right now)

THEATER, (Too expensive)

RESTAURANTS, (Fattening and expensive)

BOOK READINGS, (Which book?)

POETRY READINGS, (Where????)

BEACHES, (Too cold to swim)

BEACHES IN THE SUMMER, (Can't swim)

GO TO THE HAMPTONS, (Where am i going to sleep?)

RENT A PLACE IN THE HAMPTONS), With what money?)

GO OUT WITH FRIENDS FOR HAPPY HOUR, (Friends???)

GO FOR LONG WALKS, (Freezing outside)

MOVIES, ($ 20 )

WATCH PRIME VIDEO, ( No tv )

STATEN ISLAND FERRY, (Too cold)

GET A PART TIME JOB, (No work visa)

GO UPSTATE NY, (Where? which city?)

HUDSON, )
(Where to stay? I might sit next to Hudson river and freeze to death.)

AIRB&B, (Some one will rape me even if I could afford it)

FERRY TO STATEN ISLAND,  (In this freezing weather and on top of that what am I going to do in Staten Island? I am from Manhattan and you suggested this before. I can't stand Staten Island. I didn't leave my country just to go to Staten Island )

READ BOOKS AT HOME,  (Books? which book? i hate contemporary novels. I like philosophy and poetry, and I have read almost all the books there are to read )  I like dead wrritters, they are my best friends. I know about Victor Hugo, Balzac, Flauberet, Camus, Sartre, Valery, Malarme, Rimbaud, Baudelaire )

READ BOOKS ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY, ( I. did. I read Odysse, I read Illiad, I read Greek tragidies )

YOU ARE IMPOSSIBLE, ( That's what they said about me in my country and that's why I left, came here to enjoy what NY offers)

THEN ENJOY IT, ( Enjoy what? )

NY, (How? )

GO FOR LONG WALKS IN CENTRAL PARK.  (It's snowing outside and you are sending me for a waklk? You want me to break my leg? I already have arthritis in my foot, in my knee, in my ankle, in my shoulder...)

READ A BOOK WHICH OBAMA WROTE, ( I don't like politicians)

READ A BOOK WHICH TRUMP WROTE,  HE IS NOT A POLITICIAN,  (He wrote no book, something called, "Make a deal" was written by a ghost writer. There are ghost writers now in the modern world. Every one ends up writing a book. 'Oh! my book is coming out tomorrow." They say.

They were just typists and now they are all writers. Thats why I read literature from the 17, 18, 19th Century. There were no ghost writers  then. The real writers sat next to the fire with a candle, an inkpot and a feather and they themselves wrote every word out of 1000 pages...now every story has a ghost behind it.

SIT AND DO NTHING, (That's not why I came to NY after my retirement)

SIT ON A PARK BENCH AND THINK, ( Prone to allergies, bugs bite me, i already have a swollen eye because of that.  The American eye doctor don't know what it is...I ask him, "Is it allergy? He says, "MAYBE?" I ask him, "Is it inflamation?" He says, "Maybe?"  I ask him, "Is it infected?" 'MAYBE?" He says... I can't sit in the park and take a chance for another maybe?  Nothing is diagnosed...How can anyone treat anything if they don't know the diagnosis. All guess work to make money from the insurance companies. The longer the doctors call everything , "A MAYBE?" THE PATIENT WILL KEEP COMING BACK AND MORE MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS WILL ALSO ACCUMULATE.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE TO ENJOY WHAT NY OFFERS? (For a while )

ARE YOU ENJOYING YET?  (Enjoying? are you kidding me? Can't figure out which enjoyment NY offers will suit me and my temperament and my budget.)

HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF GOING BACK?  (Back where?")

BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY. (What?" )

SINCE YOU HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY ANYTHING WHICH NYC OFFERS WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO BACK?  (I will enjoy eventually. that's my purpose. That was my purpose to come here.

Everyone told me that NYC offers a lot. There is no city like NY city. One can enjoy without haveing money, without having heat in the apt, without having running water, with arthritis, with allergies, with

no food, no friends, actually without having anything. The only city one can enjoy in the world without having lots of things, is NYC and you are telling me to go back...I have patience, I can wait, I have a goal and I have patience, these are two perfect abilities to achieve...I don't give up...I came from far, far away to this fun city and I am determined to have fun ...

WHEN?  (Whenever...whenever the winter will go away, the snow will go away, the arthritis will go away, whenever the eye doctor will diagnose and treate my EYE, whenever the bugs will stop biting me in the park, whenever the theater will be cheaper, whenever I will be able to eat out in Manhattan gourmet resturants, whenever the movie price will go down, whenever I will have some American friends who will teach me swimming and we will take a ferry to FAR ROCKAWAY BEACH...

OH, BY THE WAY, I FORGOT...YOU CAN ALWAYS TAKE THE FERRY TO FAR ROCKEWAY BEACH, IT'S ONLY $2-75 CENTS. ( I have sea sickness...motion sickness...when the ferry moves, I throw up)

GO TO JACKSON HEIGHTS THEN. (What for? to eat more samosa's and nan and get fat...look at me...moreover it's not Manhattan...It's not NYC. And I only took the long journey here to enjoy what NYC offers.

GO TO AVE C AND DANCE IN A NIGHT CLUB...NO COVER CHARGE FOR RETIRED PEOPLE.

(OH! I TRIED THAT. I DID. I LOVE TO DANCE AND I AM A GREAT DANCER. WHEN I WENT ON THE DANCE FLOOR, IN A FEW SECONDS EVERY OTHER DANCER LEFT...I DANCED ALONE...THAT WAS NICE. KIND OF A MOMENT OF SOLITUDE AFTER SUCH A LONG JOURNEY TO NYC...SUCH A LONG, LONG, LONG JOURNEY TO NYC TO HAVE FUN.