High Unemployment

A young, healthy man sits patiently next to his brass shoe shine box in a square in Istanbul waiting for a customer

Istanbul 1970’s

I was about this young man’s age when I saw him in Istanbul so long ago.  He looked physically fit. He sat patiently, all curled up into himself, and waited for a customer. He seemed resigned to the will of fate. That’s what bothered me.

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