July Mercy on Broadway

itchy taxis zaggin

licorice windshieldwipers honkin,

the unforgiving rain

washin out The City’s purple green stars

red green planet afloat down lower Broadway

where Madison smiles hailin her lover,

stooped stoned over some jones st. fire hydrant

chompin juiced strawberry taffy:

oh sweet july!

and Laura’s soprano perfect pitch

wails floatin over East Village boarded up record stores,

where winos and quakers

toast these imperfect Manhattan heavens

down lower Broadway,

where stars celebrate stars,

where hustle still rules for lonesome revolutionaries

hostess cupcake users,

where wall st bankers give no crap tippin lonely waitresses,

where young boys skip school

memorizin 12-string guitar chords

on Broadway,

where dancers jitterbug over sidewalk cracks

parade outside radio city decked out in scarlet sequence,

where Jersey runaways search for their souls

exchangin one another for looking glass miracles,

where foreign film producers donate hot dogs and knishes

to the folk singer’s union

this seminal Broadway she sanctified

umbrella’d and radiant under NY’s purple sodden stars,

the red green planet exhalin her CitySong:

“JulyMercyOnBroadway”, huh!

Miami, FL

Spring, 2013