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Sherry Sybertz…
Collisions
Sudbury… New York City… collisions
Suburban collides with urban
Collisions
Essential to life
Yet will also destroy
Collisions formed the earth as we know it
They will eventually destroy it
Childhood collides with adulthood
As I look out to the Verrazano Bridge
And the beautiful Jersey shore
Am I 8? Or am I 18?
Pride collides with shame
Statue of Liberty shows people the opportunity of our country
Photos in the UN show us that our country is not so beautiful
Collisions…
Ethnicities collide
French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian…
Languages everywhere
English too
I collide with the blind culture
As I talk with Ben in the Hard Rock Café
… And realize how much of a challenge this condition would be for me in New York
“Blind people can’t tell what the different Subway letters are”
But he conquers NYC… and he conquers it well!
Collisions
Cultures collide
Bohemian life meets student life at Greenwich Village
Teacher culture meets L-S student culture
3 AM or 8 AM?
Childhood again…
Times Square… MTV… TRL
How I longed to see that building when I was 13
And I finally collide with that dream
Collisions
Destroyed the lives of 3,000 Americans on September 11th
Plane met tower
… From Staten Island ferry
That Mecca of life that seemed so full in the ‘90s
Empty, no towers
Destroyed by collisions
Swarms of Lincoln-Sudbury students
Collide with native New Yorkers in the subway stations
Is it the A, the B, the C, the J, the M, the Z, the N, the R?
Spontaneity collides with organization
As L-S turns into a dancing squad in Strawberry Fields
Twisting and shouting
Is this Ferris Bueller’s day off?
Consumer culture collides with poverty
“Try new pre-popped Gap polos”
The Irish Famine
The Holocaust
Which should I support?
Princeton collides with the real world
Avenue Q… Broadway
Will he find his purpose?
Will we find our purpose?
Collisions
44 pairs of feet collide with NYC’s hard pavement
Students attempt to avoid fatigue
While watching the fearless Schechter lead the pack
Suburban meets urban
Childhood meets maturity
Life meets death
Collisions make and destroy life
I collided with New York City
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[Some notes: TRL (Total Request Live) is a TV show on MTV that I used to watch religiously when I was in middle school. I used to always dream about seeing the building (in Times Square) where it was filmed in person.
In the movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the entire city of Chicago (I think…) began to sing “Twist and Shout”
“Princeton…” refers to the Broadway show we saw]