Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

30. GIMPELMAN THE DIMPLE:

Honus Wagner Billy Budd Uncle Sam and the Great Pretender the four of them together in a montage of faces over Times Square in a momentary neon blight of brightly lit image advertising a New York Travel campaign oddly enough composed of people who seem marginal to the city and even odder being directed at people already here or here enough to look up and be witness to what flashes by them but no one seems to notice anyway as I figure there must be someone nearby somewhere simply filming the sight in order to actually make the commercial that would then be beamed to those in other places like Oklahoma or Seattle or Chicago to ‘come visit the wonders of New York’ and all that or at least that’s what I think and where else but near the Great White Way as it was once called would anyone so voraciously consume junk culture and parade forth in falsified costumed images in order to make a point thousands upon thousands literally all those who pass in the course of a day visitors and sailors executives and salesmen theater-watchers and goers buyers and sellers actors and actresses on the move or on the make dancers painters singers singers of jingles the great faceless unknown people who staff the hotels and restaurants and theaters and palaces and places and museums which also are gobbled up by the rude commerce the rude glut of commerce which overtakes and eventually destroys everything here hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of flashing lightbulbs making pictures and light elements phasing in and out illuminating a roadway and street so dear as to be worth at least five thousand dollars a foot the tragic Gimpelman the dimple in the pastry the wayfaring stranger the struggling giant the wounded lover the bowing King the all-seeing I the studied and accumulated drafts of everything put forth here and here over and over and listed and cataloged and repeated for all to see and in whatever way men create their world so do they live it and without second-guessing there is no improvement or no recourse yet the lights will flash the lights remain the ever-encompassing phasar of all the energy that is just glows.