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City Reminiscence by Jan Sand 2018-05-17 05:38:04 |
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City Reminiscence In New York long ago When nickel coffee reigned, Above Third Avenue On bulky structures, stained
Rusty orange like old teeth, The rumbled roar of the el Flattened conversation down beneath, An iron demon out of Hell. Southeast a street of tranquility Where the literary sensibility Could graze on weathered books, Fondle dog-eared pages, Inhale their musty smell. Fourth Avenue below Union Square Was inhabited by small shops Barricaded by long boxes on legs Stocked with multitudes of old tomes, Jumbled display of outcast dregs Of private collections, printed ruminations From obscure minds to be bought For a mere few cents. Dickens sat with Einstein alongside Obscure statistics on the shape of bones Of cretaceous creatures That had stalked these very streets Emitting snorts and grunts and moans. This terminal moraine of thought To be excavated for nuggets – Antique volumes, odd British comic publications, Gold stamped leather bound collections Of men, pith helmeted, in deep explorations Carefully depicted with fine-lined steel engravings Plus a plethora of forgotten PhD dissertations. Today this archipelago of print is long gone, Eroded down to one last Strand Where still the studious flip pages With a searching eye, an anxious hand Fondly recalling one of New York’s finer ages. Ovi+poetry Ovi_magazine Ovi-lehti Ovi |
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