What John Ate for Supper

Boondoggle dragons play poker

with napkins and public transit

while new yorkers eat

hot dogs and each other.

 

Frank gets his watch fixed

and dies in the dark

on the beach

and John mourns him for fifty years

while they build

and blow up so many buildings,

sometimes with airplanes.

 

On the off chance

you have a half dollar

can I buy a token for skee ball

on the boardwalk

or for the bus to get there?

 

I do not have to go to – New York-

to Smell it