Life Experiences

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I jumped off a bridge and landed on top of a slow moving freight train leaving The South Bronx. The boy I was wanted freedom.

I leaped the Grand Canyon wide spaces of the cargo cars. I ran and leaped from car to car. I leaned forward as if I were on a surfboard when the train rose above the trees.

Freedom was the song running through my hair.

And only the sun was brighter than my joy.

What happened next was unbelievable

Almost Heaven. West Virginia.

As I coughed blood in a hospital of strangers, I journey the better angel of my nature, to the boy I was who wanted to break free from gravity and travel beyond Earth

Life

To Be Continued

Homelessness Made Easy For Dummies

by Daniel Angel Aponte

of Public School 161

Copyrighted 2018

Is that God, I thought while being potty trained in front of an eye on a TV set in the time of the first space age president who said we go to the moon not because it’s easy but because it’s difficult.

I wanted to know more about God when I took a screwdriver to the back of the TV that showed me how to reveal who The Wizard Of Oz really was. 

I saw a beautiful city made from glass tubes that glowed with the color of golden amber.

I crawled into a TV set discarded in a backyard and looked out to the burnt out buildings of The South Bronx. A vast wasteland was TV believed the first president of The Federal Communication Committee.

I saw a cowboy from Death Valley Days ride out into The South Bronx as President Ronald Reagan who promised to rebuilt a town that basically was a homeless shelter for the working poor and those that looked for work. 

I came out of a dumpster across my second home called Public School 161.

I had the wood to build my time machine for the science fair.

 I also built a shoeshine box to set shop between a newsstand and The White House, an Italian American supermarket on Prospect Street.

I made money to buy wires and mini light bulbs to be put together with a soldering pen.

I was 7 years old with dreams of being a scientist.

At the age of 5, I invented a space ship made from a paper cup before creating a sleek ship made from construction paper and copper fasteners.

Years later, I tried to recover memories while working part time on a garbage truck.

I found a Newsweek magazine on the street with my birthday.

On the cover was a picture of a boy in R.E.M mode or dreaming.

It’s all I have in the way of a baby picture of myself.

I put it together with another discarded item on Global Warming never knowing to use it for Homelessness Made Easy For Dummies

Creativity is a great mystery

Copyrighted 2018 by Daniel Angel Aponte

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