Category: Drugs

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

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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

Drug abuse, Drugs, Love, New York City, Relationships, Street Life, Uncategorized, Urban Life

UPTOWN MAN

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UPTOWN MAN © PJ Hayward New York, 2017 For all those reasons you know well...           I keep you at arms length now By my choice, never closer now than just a voice on the phone ..... It's where I keep you now. But you never stray - or at least… Continue reading UPTOWN MAN

1960s, 1970S, Drugs, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Roosevelts, Shell Shock, The Draft, Uncategorized, Viet Nam, Viet Nam War

THE FRUITS OF WAR

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THE FRUITS OF WAR © PJ HAYWARD NEW YORK, 2014 Recently I was watching a documentary about the Roosevelt family.  In amongst tales of the exploits of Bully Teddy Roosevelt, the “Dragon Lady” mother of Franklin Roosevelt and the general regaling of the Holy Roosevelt Dynasty, a small newsreel piece was tucked into a corner… Continue reading THE FRUITS OF WAR

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?

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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?

African Diaspora, Border guards, Civil Rights, Civil Unrest, Control, Corporate America, Counter Culture, Diaspora, Disrespect, Drugs, Exploitation, Family, Family Unit, Freedom, Greed, Hard Work, Hatred, Immigration, Inequality, Injustice, Inner Strength, Justice, Me Generation, Media, Native Americans, People of color, Politics, Race Relations, Social Activism, super rich, The Family, U.S. Mexico border, Uran blight, Urban growth, Urban Life, Yuppies

THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE: A Message to The Divided States of America

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THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE: A Message to the Divided States of America © 2014 PJ Hayward, New York Being a Caucasian-born person who has now grown old and having lived since a young age among and surrounded by non-Caucasian cultures, I feel privileged, blessed ....and burdened ....to have… Continue reading THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE: A Message to The Divided States of America

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

THE TELEPHONE MAN

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© 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