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.
nicely done!
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
I liked it all but the smoking thing!
Sargirl
One of my all-time emule favorites. Thanks for the bump, Les. Anyone hear from Jay?
Joe
Jay was definitely a free spirit...and a great writer.
Les
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
spot on as usual from Jay...would be nice if he were around again to post some more.
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
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Johnny,
Your addendum is pure lyricism.
Peter
Good one Johnny, shades of the naked city.
Les