Angst New York Poems

as the Towers die away 
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll 
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental...

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In the chaos of youth lights
          dance without exhaustion
A ballet on the river
   ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Fabled Streets into spaces of loneliness,
field hospital in central park
and the wailing of ambulances, their serpentine allure
claiming its wild certitude amid
full tides of sacrifice in
ERs...

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It is crowded standing room only.Door slides shut.
I am not able to get very far from it as I
grab the nearest pole. A young man
who...

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Alert Alert Alert

A bomb in New Jersey
A bomb in New York
Two bombs not detonated yet

Is this a distraction or a warning to come?
To see what...

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A meeting of the quorum
We’re takin’ this place by storm
Got to get back to the farm
By hook or by crook

We’re young, free and insane
Clothes all...

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It's in a turtle soup shop where I'm employed
It's my duty to cook vomit-inducing soup turtle
which no decent human palate could stand;
a horrid job and...

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SHOWTIME
Come life and death of it you blessed rhapsody
you've played for long enough and now it's time to go
there's not a better time than now...

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Sita's getting chubby;
"I'm pregnant," she claims.
Ma's henna-tinged hair
bursts into flames.

It never lived
but Ma shrieks "Honor is dead!"
Sita never wanted marriage
but now how will Sita wed?

At...

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THE EMPIRE GREAT

I still walk in a New York kind of way
Although I now live a thousand miles from there
I still dream of a New...

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THE EMPIRE GREAT

I still walk in a New York kind of way
Although I now live a thousand miles from there
I still dream of a New...

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The city of New York wants to reduce the security guards at their agencies
Penny wise and pound foolish is what they’re coming to be
To try...

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Both the ignorant and wise

Have the nerve to criticize

But I've heard the crocodile cries

And the smiley-faced lies

Of those New York cynics

 

I’ve been bloodied and...

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