Boardwalk Voices

September 26th, 2011

Walking along the boardwalk

There are phrases such as

Please keep our beach clean

Friends

Please don’t litter

Trash here

Mamma loves Sanna

Welcome to Coney Island

Family

Grandma

New York Rules

Alabama

Empire State College

Brooklyn New York 2011

Written on those rusty chipped metal garbage cans

Each vividly decorated in

Red, blue, purple, orange, green or yellow paint

With images of the sea, sun, fish, clouds and more

How did they get there?

Why bother painting on them?

Is it so that we can throw out garbage in style?

As I was pondering these thoughts

I received strange looks

From those passing by

 

Walking along the boardwalk

Past the garbage cans

Are the mural paintings

Filled with pictures of

Fish, sharks, turtles, jellyfish, sea stars, coral reefs

Even human shadows

And the big bold words of

New York Aquarium

 

It just makes you wonder

Are these paintings

Coney Island’s way to

Raise environmental awareness?

Express New York Pride?

Or even familial love?

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