PresenTense Issue 12: Our Environment

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Improvements Get a load of this road it’s been paved in code take a left no a right hug that curve tight

grab the map do the math steer us quickly closer to smoother paths.

Forever Red The red and the yellow and the green command motorized armies taking orders from a hue and sheen everyone reacts it’s just one of those facts looking at lights we every day try

to chase down but before we go back to cruising around this town let’s do something novel instead let’s save ourselves an ozone layer and turn all those traffic lights forever red. The New American Census (the first Census to sense America) is an online collaboration begun in December 2009 by photographer Adam Cohen and writer Craig Friedman. Through the combination of photography and poetry, they aim to capture the essence of everyday life in New York City and beyond.

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