New York City - Midtown

No Mickey, Minnie, or Goofy- no Jimmy The Cricket The spirit of Sodom is Gomorrah...what I see is plain "Wicked" Neon lit buildings and business bright nights... A terse description of 8th Ave - I see somethings not right Jailbait pimps fishing for girlish age bodies Port of Authority freaks craving school boy young hotties A bunco, a scam - the cards of "Monte" are three... White kids from Jersey seeking fake/fresh Ids Cabbies waiting for fares/get their plates/it's too late Little courtesy or English and overpriced rates Electronic stores, you have restaurants; a myriad of stands that vend snacks You can have a wad roll of money, yet still looked at if Black The Homeless Are Human, it's the truth not conjecture It seems to keep them sans housing gives Midtown its texture Fleabag hotels are great bargains/I've heard there's four legged pests You've paid your money - there's danger, but you still can't have guests Mounted units, Blue grunts to keep the rich ones protected The last Toe Tag said "No One", why wasn't that crime detected? A Vagrant says that he's hungry to everyone that he greets You can't see the flame touch the Pyrex/it's the crack that he eats On the trains I see animals, sometimes you'd think a new species Most of those stations need cleaning....in my sight Human Feces Poetiq visions/my heart troubled/ I had no choice but expound It goes down daily in the Crab Apple/New York City....Midtown
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011


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Date: 8/1/2011 12:40:00 PM
Get an apartment on 5th Avenue looking across Central Park; it's so much pleasanter there. You won't have to look at all that stuff. I know, I know; it takes money.
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Date: 8/1/2011 12:19:00 PM
a fiesty poem, the other side of New York. being British we only see the good, still a good poem with a message. I like that.
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