Monday, November 12, 2012

New York Notes

By Harvey Shapiro
 
1.
Caught on a side street
in heavy traffic, I said
to the cabbie, I should
have walked. He replied,
I should have been a doctor.
 
2.
When can I get on the 11:33
I ask the guy in the information booth
at the Atlantic Avenue Station.
When they open the doors, he says.
I am home among my people.
 
 
Reprinted from Good Poems, American Places
  edited by Garrison Keillor, Penguin Books, 2011.

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