NAMES STRANGERS* HAVE CALLED ME

Ames Varos

*Cashiers,
bus drivers,
bartenders, baristas, dog owners, homeless people, people in grocery
stores, officers, people in bodegas, construction
workers, commuters, tour guides,
volunteers, shoppers, salespeople, docents, office people,
car dealers,
card dealers
fish mongers, EMTs, valets, priests,
rabbis, people in
Target, dock
workers,
sex workers,
mail carriers,
pop
psychologists,
cab drivers,
sanitation workers, buskers, bussers, tourists, passers by, concierges, curators, servers, librarians, protesters,
ticket takers, proselytizers, park rangers,
Boy Scouts, flight
attendants,
fire fighters, delivery
drivers, line cooks,
sample givers,
people at farmers'
markets, zookeepers, sign twirlers, kids, teenagers, adults, other parents
at the park.