Conquered by ideals unattained <br />Her old skin with bright jewelry <br />Orthodox matzo <br />Unleavened New York <br /> <br />Flowers growing in Staten Island <br />Writer's driving old cabs <br />We need small circles <br />We need miracles <br /> <br />Nostalgia like old quilts <br />She dates the rotten apples <br />Glitches of the familiar safe <br />Change the white pieces for black <br /> <br />Meaning is a chance we take <br />His hearing aid acts up in restaurants <br />Existential morose hardening the heart <br />Self analysis like regulated addiction <br /> <br />Traffic lights and an old song on the radio <br />Art shops by Washington Square <br />Italian restaurants and her silk stockings <br />I like Greenwich Village in the fall <br /> <br />I think of her all of the time<br /><br />Joseph Narusiewicz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-of-the-time-2/
