DC

DC a place where people still smoke pipes

The only major metropolitian on the east coast where you will smell pipe smoke at 9am and 9pm walking down the sidewalk.

On special occasions top hats may abound. I wonder why

Why this transient modern wordly city sometimes clings to the past.

My thoughts are because in some ways it was a grander time.

worse things might have been happening but our lack of technology kept us in ignorance

now we can't hide, no one can

now most of those in the Capitol city are concerned with and working on the globe's most horrific tragedies

we can't shut our eyes so all we can do to escape now is take a quick break and evening off in costume where we pretend our ancestors didnt turn their backs on the founding ideals of freedom, equality, and justice.

fooling ourselves, consoling our souls, its all a weak attempt to keep our sanity.