New York City
\nAren’t you just the most glamorous thing?
\nDecked out in towering skyscrapers?
\nLapped at the edges by water?
\nEvery inch is something:
\nBuildings, people, specks of green respite.<\/p>\n
You sleep.
\nOnly in certain areas
\nTimes Square.
\nAwful, just awful.
\nThe signs illuminate a path.
\nBut the core is dead quiet.
\n4 am and a few tourists get a Starbucks
\n2 other folk get a slice.
\nMostly just silence, even a weekday at 6am.<\/p>\n
But you got them all fooled.
\nDo they know you stink?
\nRows of streets waiting for trash collection.
\nThat rotting putrid perfume you have in July.
\nYou broil them too.
\nAfter sounding them down 2 it 3 flights of stairs
\nTeetering and wobbling with oversized luggage
\nPraying for safe passage or help (keep praying!)
\nLugging the stroller
\nThen you just blast them
\nWith an August furnace to melt their epidermis away.
\nThe real lucky folk get an un air conditioned car.<\/p>\n
Your people aren’t rude, necessarily.
\nJust killing themselves to pay your bills
\nThey got no time for chit chat with a 4000 rent
\nThey don’t want your new album
\nYour pamphlet
\nThey don’t want anything you got that can’t help then make a buck.<\/p>\n
New York your grimey
\nYour homeless and broke
\nLitter subways and pile up in neighborhoods
\nBut they write songs about you.<\/p>\n
Old songs.
\nWere you better than?
\nIf I had to write you a song
\nIt would be a blues number
\nBlues for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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