Friendship New York Poems

In New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that...

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I posted a piece that 1943 characters to long for here.

So, it's under short stories it's called: "New Year's and strip clubs"

Here's a partial URL...

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My latest piece is -1600 characters too long for the poetry section (sigh)

So it's under short stories. The URL is:

www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/merritt_and_the_power_of_charm_10833
 
I hope you like it....

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It’s Tuesday morning. I’d thought, until Leeza corrected me, that Thanksgiving was today. 

“Thanksgiving always falls on Thursday, dorkus,” Leeza said Sunday, at breakfast (extirpating...

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It is together 
that we will find the best of 
all worlds in this world...

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Do we really have 
The choice of anchovies 
on the pizza dough ?

Aby M....

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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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New York Stanza
The night is dark and wet, street lights
Have no purchase on the empty street beneath;
Only the soft glow from the tenement windows 
Gives...

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Have You

Ever wondered how it happens?
How the last person stays, 
How they make sure, everyone else gets out?

Ever wonder why?
Is that important? 
As long as...

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code name for hustler
sordid, downbeat, serious—
Joe Buck and Rico...

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The weather gods were smiling
As we five old friends did meet,
Providing us with catch-up hours
To stroll, to schmooze, to eat.

We sat outside for lunch
And had...

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Somewhere over the rainbow...A 9/11 story
1970
He sat next to me in Junior school
when I was just a little girl.
Always so sweet to me
I really liked...

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I probably am the only one in the Big Apple to admit,
" The bigger the city, the lonelier one feels! "
Skyscrapers are modern monuments built...

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I probably am the first one to say,
" The bigger the city, the lonelier one feels! "
Skyscrapers are modern monuments
that we build against a foggy...

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As a little girl he sat next to me at school.
I always liked him,  no, much more than that.
Later we walked home together.
He would...

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