Photo by the author
upon a time in manhattan
a band wailed
people howled
elastic inside their skins
sticks and cowbells embroidered downtown dreams
percussive waves resurrected sacrosanct spirits
we are uptown gangsters disintegratin antiquity
fixtures defyin sidewalk blackmarble tables
pranksters unfoldin our ebullient hearts
beneath velvetblue Apollo skies,
breathin in those bells
those hypnagogic bells
jammin all as one
upon a time in Manhattan
NYC, 1981