William Sydney Porter Poems | Examples


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This Unreal City

I live in New York 
   City 
An unreal place 
   where you see gorgeous women 
  and plenty of homeless people 
 This city is a study in contrasts 
 between the haves and have - nots
It is a cultural mecca 
with museums, concerts and plenty of poetry readings 
This unreal metropolis 
   has inspired plenty of writing and poetry 
 From Walt Whitman to O. Henry 
   this city has been written
I am trying my humble best 
   to add to the canon 
of writing about 
   "Baghdad on the Hudwon" 
   as O.Henry(William Sydney Porter)
named it in an earlier time

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