for Peter Schjeldahl <br /> <br /> Wake up high up <br /> frame bent & turned on <br /> Moving slowly <br /> & by the numbers <br /> light cigarette <br /> Dress in basic black <br /> & reading a lovely old man’s book: <br /> <br /> BY THE WATERS OF MANHATTAN <br /> <br /> change <br /> <br /> flashback <br /> <br /> play cribbage on the Williamsburg Bridge <br /> watching the boats sail by <br /> the sun, like a monument, <br /> move slowly up the sky <br /> above the bloody rush: <br /> <br />break yr legs & break yr heart <br />kiss the girls & make them cry <br />loving the gods & seeing them die <br /> <br /> celebrate your own <br /> & everyone else’s birth: <br /> <br /> Make friends forever <br /> & go away<br /><br />Ted Berrigan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/things-to-do-in-new-york-city/
