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The City I Love
Posted by: Jay (---.system42.com)
Date: November 14, 2021 10:10AM

What I want is someone
who will stand and
smoke Marlboro's with me
(the strong ones, in the red package)
in the rain

after eating a lumberjack
at the strand on 98th street

someone who
will hold my had while
watching the boats at Southstreet Seaport

someone who
can out-drink me at Mcsorley's
and eat more cheesecake
at the Carnegie Deli

I want to be in the city I love

with someone who
will go down on me
on the centre steps of the Met

and, go home with me -
watch Annie Hall and
cry listening to Nina singing Porgy at the Vanguard

I want someone who
will stare with me at Auden's house and,
walk with me to the Dakota
to look up to the window where Lennon lived

someone who knows all the words to
The New Colossus

someone who,
wants to be with me in the city
of the heros we share

what I want is someone
who knows about the Irish and

Ellis Island and,
why Sugar Hill is called that

what I want is
to be with you
in the city we love.


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: dreambabe (---.system42.com)
Date: November 14, 2021 12:21PM

nicely done!


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: Brucefur (---.ok.shawcable.net)
Date: November 14, 2021 07:44PM

Jay,

Well done indeed.

One small typo to call to your attention;

someone who
will hold my had (hand) while
watching the boats at Southstreet Seaport


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: Sargirl (---.maine.rr.com)
Date: November 16, 2021 09:22PM

I liked it all but the smoking thing!
Sargirl


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: May 11, 2022 09:49PM

bump


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: hpesoj (69.116.241.---)
Date: May 12, 2022 07:08AM

One of my all-time emule favorites. Thanks for the bump, Les. Anyone hear from Jay?

Joe


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: May 13, 2022 12:25PM

Jay was definitely a free spirit...and a great writer.

Les


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: easyeverett (97.125.165.---)
Date: May 13, 2022 03:43PM

A truly wonderful homage to individual needs that personify
the soul of a city they love by sharing that love with
someone else who understands and compliments each micro
facet of emotional gradiation until two are unified as one. tom


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: frost42_24 (67.185.193.---)
Date: May 23, 2022 04:11AM

spot on as usual from Jay...would be nice if he were around again to post some more.


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: JohnnyBoy (24.189.156.---)
Date: May 24, 2022 04:25AM

I know It sees me...
It always knows just when I'm there
and then It feeds me...
with walls of stone and glass and air
and then It tells me..
about the place I once belonged
upon a time that never was and leaves a memory so strong




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/20/2005 02:20PM by JohnnySansCulo.


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: petersz (69.181.22.---)
Date: May 24, 2022 06:27AM

Johnny,

Your addendum is pure lyricism.

Peter


Re: The City I Love
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: May 24, 2022 11:11AM

Good one Johnny, shades of the naked city.

Les




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