a reflection beating off a wooden castle as we ride buses observing the same faces sitting in the same seats there are those in limousines, private helicopters and jets. while 11.4 miles down the road and 36 states east other folks have their hands out and some sing merrily in subways for a dot of currency. this is nothing new, we realize, but pondering it deeply could violate the nature of existence entirely. I'm not kidding. it could potentially crack all the windows in high-rises it could quite possibly shatter all the cellphones it could break down corporate control it may even defame the most revered or put the most successful and richest in rags it could even extract the billions out of the deepest pockets and most sterling of banks; there in Switzerland, Russia, Netherlands, Tokyo. oh why not just watch out the window and observe the only bird that flies                               backwards. -michael j tino 2007 back