Years ago Jeremiah's Vanishing New York a.k.a the Book of Lamentation asked me what I missed most about the tender rubble of New York. I answered that that was asking a fish at a fish market what it missed about the water.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Doug, Shawn and the Mariner coaxed me into a sea I had only seen in pictures. And there we saw a city of fish. All kinds, living in different nooks and crannies of rocks and coral and some weird concrete slabs - I had no idea how those slabs got on the bottom of the ocean but there were lots of fish and even some lobsters that were glad to nestle underneath.
And then I thought about all the fish living in tanks. Like the little guy I passed so often on my way home who always came up to the glass to look back at me. I wondered if he missed his city like I missed mine.
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