OWS NIMBY

I was walking on the empty street when a policemen told me to move onto the sidewalk. There was no car anywhere five hundred feet all around.
These were nothing when some idiot policeman pepper sprayed them into public attention.
There was no cars, no demonstration, so regular pedestrians took over the entire street. A nice afternoon  stroll on Bway.
Was thinking I am with OWS, just hope they are not going to complicate my commute home.
 OWS NIMBY

As I was making left on Prince St. they showed up. First, municipal union reps, sad and thin in numbers.
At the end there were quite joyous young people. A good show. 1st of May. Better than than the Thanksgiving parade.

Green Markets

Green markets are popping up everywhere, but mostly in gentrified neighborhoods. Selling supposedly organic veggies. At higher prices. Ugly tomatoes. Small peddlers dressed as farmers.  Potatoes so wrinkled I would not know how to peel. Insufficiently  baked muffins. And people buy them. Not for what they are but for what they mean, Occupy Wall Street tents are not unlike these markets.  They seem to mean.