So Much On My Mind That I Can’t Recline [On Hurricane Sandy]
Hurricane Sandy Hits South Carolina Beach
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis,
Shinin’, like “Who on top of this?”
Shinin’, like “Who on top of this?”
- Mos Def in Blackstar’s “Respiration”
Flashlights. Bottles of water. Cereal. Baby food. Milk. Batteries. Charged devices. Landline phone on deck. Ready-to-eat foods.As we went through the list at the supermarket, I found myself feeling stupid for thinking it wasn’t going to be that bad. Chalk it up to a New Yorker’s bravado. The citadel that survived the riots of the 70s, the drug wars of