Mom New York Poems

We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.

It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild...

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Unconventional, perhaps, but hope you enjoy. I was on the radio in grade school and had the distinction of singing “five golden rings,” off pitch...

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Slang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade = 
brooke = gorgeous 
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”

Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School...

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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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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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A walk around the block in my parents’ neighborhood at dawn
wearing mom’s sweater and pop's sneakers with a clown hole cut out for  
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I saw Sting in the lobby this morning, we were going out and he was coming in. Lisa nudged me, “Sting” was all she whispered....

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part 1 of 2

Annick (my 28 year old sister) came down to NYC, from Boston, for a day visit. It was one of those warm,...

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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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We’ve just begun; we’re in phase one.
With baby steps we’re starting,
Although we must remember that
The danger’s not departing.

So work resumes, but still the Zooms
Will substitute...

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THIS POEM WRITHED OUT OF THE HEART;
BASED ON A TRUE STORY 
AS PEOPLE OF THAT GREAT CITY
ARE TORN APART..

I AM A NEW YORKER 

I was...

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On the lower east side were a melting pot
just a bunch of city kids with no sandlot
this particular day being extremely hot
fanning ourselves with all...

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In great respect of the band I grew up listening to
              ...

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She woke up late that morning
From the fight the night before
She had argued with her husband
About what, she wasn't sure

He left for work some time...

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2060 to L.A.
But it is just 280 miles to Nashville, Tennessee
Where I can see the country stars of the Grand Ol' Opry
Like Faith, Alan, Tim...

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