I took this video at the Brooklyn bridge pier;
” others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
others will watch the run of the flood-tide,
others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
others will see the islands large and small;
fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half
an hour high,
a hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence,
others will see them”
Whitman(leaves of grass P317)
Sadly i was not one of the people who crossed the ferry but Whitman was right,
a hundred years hence people are still crossing, and as i people are still watching the run of the flood-tide,
how did Whitman, or why did Whitman see people a hundred years in the future still doing the same things?
will it still be this way a hundred years from now?
