Street sweeping used to get me, almost every month. I’d head to my car – probably off to help orphaned children with their math homework or something – and I’d find the little fella tucked in his bright yellow blanket wedged in the door jamb, a little flag proclaiming my forgetfulness. “A ticket! Why me?!,” I’d sulk. “I’m one of the good guys!” echoing down the just cleaned street as I’d fall to my knees. Cue trumpets. Introducing…Â The Parking Ticket Emotional Reclamation Project, an art infiltration project started by Michael White and his humanity loving friends in Brooklyn. Their idea is to inject art where parking violations breed in order to “restore emotional balance to New York, The World, The Universe.” Postcards scribbled/pasted/painted/spit on by “artists” around the nation will now accompany parking tickets throughout Manhattan to dispel those “Not again!” yells of frustration. Keys to the city for the good guys. Soon you’ll be able to check out all the handmade works by our nation’s redemption serving heroes at PTERP’s website www.pterproject.org. Below is a piece I submitted to the cause and a note to the recipient from PTERP HQ. Street sweeping violations avenged!
At Least Make It Rhyme
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