New York City Blues Essay, Research Paper

I walk through the village

Through the park where I watched

the street performers dance so long ago

It?s dusk and the neighborhood

Crew is alive and well.

?Hey, girl, I got it cheap?

Normally I would scurry past

My head down

Tonight I smile faintly

I know that this will be the last time

I hear those words.

All night I walk

The city lights overhead, indifferent

To the thoughts in my head

In the darkness the twins shine

High above the other

buildings in the sky

I think of home, three blocks

And yet an eternity away.

How I?d walked the

Cobbled streets of downtown

Smelling the aroma of salmon

I dare to take one final ride on the six train

In the stillness of the night I am alone.

Nowhere in mind

I get off at Astor and remember

The fashion shoot they did there long ago

And how happy just being

A part of it made me feel.

I think about how it will seem

Tomorrow as I board at 34th

For the final time

And I wonder if the city of lights

Will feel my departure

The way I will

If it will weep and notice

That I left a piece of me

Within its borders.