I had originally wanted this blog post to center around the photograph below. I went on the Metrorail solely for the purpose of taking a picture of graffiti. But not just any graffiti, it had to be graffiti that could only be seen by the riders of the train. It was at the top of a building, so the only way anyone could see it entirely would be, primarily, from the Metro. Perhaps EHN5 or HINT was a gang, or a high school, or some other organization I wasn’t aware of at the time, or referring to some important issue. I honestly had no idea what these phrases meant, but I was intent on finding out their inner meanings.
The most I found out about EHN5 was that it classified a number of hardware items, furniture, and even a trading stock on the New York Stock Exchange. But none of it seemed to be related to locals in Miami. I could find almost nothing for HINT that related to any organizations in Miami.
But what I found on one of the light posts was even more interesting. Here, in the subway station at South Miami, was inscribed the life span of an individual. I don’t know the name of this individual, the letters were hard to make out. But what was visible was “Oct. 21, 1963-2011”. The Miami Metrorail system wasn’t established until 1984, when this person would’ve been twenty-one years old. Imagine the stories this individual could’ve told us. He or she might’ve told us about life before the Metrorail, how construction impacted the community, how the subway system united (or further divided) Miami as a city. The possibilities are endless. If only the marker had engraved “Oct. 21, 1963-”.
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