Hire Lernin’ An Idealist’s Quest Through the Realm of for-Profit Education

The city I love, the city I hate . . .

I lived in NYC for nearly half of my life. Work is now just over a half hour away and I still visit often. I love the cultural, architectural, and myriad other benefits only a melting pot inhabited by people from the four corners of the world can offer. But I hate the underbelly that lies just below the surface throughout the expansive metropolis beyond the picture-postcard facade it shows the world. My early poetry accentuates these failings in two of my most negative portrayals of the city in "The Subway" and "Central Park." The contrasts are not nuanced and strike discordant chords in those who pay attention and are willing to take an honest look beneath the surface layer of glitz and glamor. The protagonist, unlike the narrator, chooses to submerge uncomfortable truths about himself and his chosen career path or acknowledge them mostly through humor such as his "subversive thoughts" about the legal profession when walking by the Queens criminal courthouse early in the novel. But that is about to change.