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Forrest Harrison Gerke - Artist, Musician and Writer in New York City.

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The Forlorn Elephant of Broadway

August 18, 2014 Forrest Gerke

My tragic looking new friend standing watch outside of a shabby little midtown shop.

The poor character looks as if he's seen a heavy share of life's injustices.

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In Daily Life, Employment, New York City, Manhattan
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Gladys the Great

August 8, 2012 Forrest Gerke

The Manhattan skyline as seen from the Christopher Street Pier.

Of all the mundane things I'd see each morning, she was the event I looked forward to most.

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In Daily Life, Employment, Manhattan, New York City
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Through panes of glass

February 21, 2011 Forrest Gerke

The many windows of Midtown Manhattan.

I get a little carried away with my imagination, escaping into the ambiguous scenes of the lives progressing around me through panes of glass...

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In Employment, Manhattan, New York City, Personal Narrative
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Life in a frozen metropolis

January 19, 2011 Forrest Gerke

A day spent walking in Central Park, enjoying the balmy New York winter.

In one of the largest cities in the world, with cutting edge technologies, life could still be brought to a halt by a phenomenon as basic as snow.

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In Daily Life, Employment, Manhattan, New York City, Personal Narrative, Seasonal, Subway
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Autumn in New York

November 17, 2010 Forrest Gerke

My glorious faux-fur hat.

What I learned when I recently purchased the most ridiculous giant faux-fur winter hat I could find.

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In Employment, New York City, Manhattan, Personal Narrative, Seasonal
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Nama-stinkers

September 27, 2010 Forrest Gerke

A herd of trendy exercise-buffs, similar to the likes of those found in Brooklyn

Now this adolescent nightmare is a billion dollar industry known as Yoga, and it's hit New York like a malignant cancer.

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In Employment, Manhattan, New York City, Personal Narrative
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Monks of the Order of Saint Marilyn

August 8, 2010 Forrest Gerke

Marilyn Monroe in a moment of divine revelation

Recently, I was exposed to an apartment that chilled me to my very core, and the pair of old queens who inhabited it.

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In Employment, Manhattan, New York City, Personal Narrative
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Employment and other forms of self-betrayal

July 13, 2010 Forrest Gerke

"The Subway" by George Tooker

It is amazing to find the limit of the depths to which you are willing to stoop when trying to become "employed."

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In Manhattan, New York City, Personal Narrative, Employment, Daily Life, Brooklyn
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