NEW YORK

Oh New York,
you're so ugly,
but you've got such a pretty underbelly.
With your sluts, your hookers, and lechers
and their makeup and mascara.

I met an American poet
with a Russian beard and French philosophy,
and he said to me quite self-promotingly
"I'm a fop, a dandy, and a cad."
With his skinny body
and his tight black clothes
He had a few female admirers.

The Ghost of Leonard Cohen
walks these streets.

Copyright ©2012 Ashi Shadow -8/26/12 NY by 47th and Lexington, but written based on my memory of an area near Times Square around 2002 and "romantic" views of new york read elsewhere, such as "It's Me Eddie" by Limonov