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# Shopping Cart Series: Still Breathing
- URL: https://bklyner.com/shopping-cart-series-still-breathing-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2010-09-02T10:00:12.000Z
- Updated: 2010-09-02T10:00:12.000Z
- Author: Ray Johnson
- Tags: river, #API-Imported

![Shopping cart yellow stranded august 2010](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/shopping-cart-nolastname-yellow-verrazano-aug10-600x337.jpg "shopping cart nolastname yellow verrazano aug10")

No longer determined to die. (Photo courtesy of nolastname, August 2010)

Last week, when they[ first published my story](/shopping-cart-series-verrazano-goodbye/), I thought I was taking my last breath — but, somehow, my diaphragm just kept on going.

The next day, when someone started taking pictures of me, it was early morning and I really wasn’t in any mood. Then, the photographer told me that life is like that. Every day is a sunset. Some days it’s a lovely sunset, some days pretty dull — but, there’s always a sunrise. Even if the clouds obscure it, the sun rises.

I suddenly felt some hope, and taking my last breath wasn’t the only thing I could think about. This ain’t no kind of life for a shopping cart, but things could be worse, I suppose. I mean, I could have ended up in the Gowanus Canal, instead of near Caesar’s Bay or whatever place this is.