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Wanted In Thirty-eight States

July 11, 2023 – 9:40 am

Coming back from midtown Subway Sunday slow A Train to Brooklyn A younger older man He asks, “Are you famous?” Like Ulysees to the cyclops I say, “I am no one.” He begs to differ. “You are someone. My name is Prince. From East New York. I done twenty-five. For five murders. The po-lice shot […]

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New York Desolation – Poem November 30 1976

December 11, 2022 – 9:25 pm

A last kiss through cold steel bars Accompany your parting glance Our worlds, met and joined Drift away in this final act Your steps echo off tunnel walls Becoming your last trace And they too vanish under the roar Of the subway that gives you escape In that moment I call out desperate You don’t […]

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Broadway Junction – Crossroads

May 1, 2018 – 12:35 pm

Broadway Junction has been Brooklyn’s busiest subway station for over a hundred years. Six lines converge in East New York to service the outer-lying neighborhoods of New York’s largest and most populous borough; the A, C, J, L, and Z. Most of the station rises above the streets on steel girders. To the north the […]

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