Betrayal, City Life, Control, Disintegration of the family, Drug abuse, Drug Paraphernalia, Drugs, Family Unit, Inner Strength, Love, New York City, Relationships, Separation, Street Life, Uncategorized, Urban Life

LOST

LOST © PJ Hayward New York, 2018 You have invited our old enemy Full-on, back into your world. I saw it creeping slowly.. Slithering like some acrid poison Into your world through a crack in your cocoon. You said you could control it. But we are connected... Your essence flows like radar To fill my… Continue reading LOST

Black boys, Black men, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Black women, Black Youth, Civil Rights, Civil Unrest, Control, Counter Culture, Disrespect, Drug Paraphernalia, Drugs, Freedom, Hatred, Independence, Inequality, Injustice, Jail, Justice, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, People of color, Police Brutality, Race Relations, Scuffling, Stop and Frisk Laws, Street vendors, Uncategorized, Urban Life

NEW YORK COPS MURDER UNARMED, UNRESISTING FATHER OF SIX – YOU BE THE WITNESS AND YOU BE THE JUDGE – Do You See This Man Resisting Arrest?

NEW YORK COPS MURDER UNARMED, UNRESISTING FATHER OF SIX YOU BE THE WITNESS AND YOU BE THE JUDGE Do You See This Man Resisting Arrest? © PJ HAYWARD, 2014 New York On Friday July 18, 2014 an UNARMED Eric Garner, a married father of six children, was murdered by Staten Island Police, who put the… Continue reading NEW YORK COPS MURDER UNARMED, UNRESISTING FATHER OF SIX – YOU BE THE WITNESS AND YOU BE THE JUDGE – Do You See This Man Resisting Arrest?

1960s, 1970S, California, Counter Culture, Drug Paraphernalia, Drugs, Farming, Flower Children, Hippies, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Marijuana, Uncategorized

THE TELEPHONE MAN

© PJ Hayward 2010 First Published 2011 by Hold On Publications Revised © PJ Hayward, New York 2014 Long ago when I was in my early twenties, I was living in an area of Los Angeles called Silverlake.  Among the rising and falling Silverlake hills, flourishing treescapes and other vegetation fill every crack and crevice with… Continue reading THE TELEPHONE MAN

Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Con Games, Counter Culture, Drug Paraphernalia, Head Shops, La Raza, Panthers, Street Life

LIVING LARGE – A THOUSAND GAMES TO PLAY

 LIVING LARGE - A THOUSAND GAMES TO PLAY PART 7 OF A SERIES - STORIES FROM A LIFE © PJ Hayward, New York 2008 First Published 2008 by Hold On Publications Revised © PJ Hayward New York 2013 I’m going to skip ahead a year or so now to 1972. As you know, by then… Continue reading LIVING LARGE – A THOUSAND GAMES TO PLAY