WRITTEN WHILST SITTING IN/AROUND ‘MURRAYS BAGELS’
500 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8403, United States
(212) 462-2830
HIPSTER
Nice T-Shirt
What you gonna eat?
What you gonna share?
ACTING
Take Breaths
make contact
Use your hands.
SPANISH GIRL
Phone talk on 6th
Hand bag gift
A quiet talker
YELLOW CAB
Sunken eyes but
ready to smile
On the meter
i wrote these poems on that bench or was it the other bench?
ICE COFFEE
Yr Gone now.
I just want ice
maybe a little more caffeine.
HATTIE
Back in my mind -sigh-
Holy avocados Hattie
Where are your Hands at?
SUNGLASSES
Sunday shirt – cigarette-
You made the effort
Obviously
‘M.T.A -N.Y.C’- BUS
Glad I’m not on it
I’ll tell you that right now
It’s so Efff’ing hot no?
HIPSTER NO. 2
Tight purple thin jean legs
Dietch glasses
Whats beneath that ginger hair?
‘Murray’s Bagels’
Sunday ques
it never ends
locals chewing constantly
HIP HOP
What happened?
I wanna hear more…
it’s New york right?
CHINESE MAN
Whats going on with your hat?
Secondhand? Tired?
just take a break from flyering…
BIRD
Little tiny bird
The city is bigger than you!
its great that you don’t care though!
COP GOT HIT
Everybody starring across street
cab bumped into a cop
gets to go home early
I MISS YOU, H…
What you up i wonder?
everlasting electric Love
where are we shelved?
PHOTOGRAPHER
I could be anywhere
yr just holding a Nikon d5000
its pretty good though. Jealous.
KID
Hold hands with ‘Mom’
try smiling yeah!
No?
SPANISH GIRL PART II
Still Talking on phone
i’m still here too…
are you still smoking?
DANIEL
Arrives – surprise!-eating crisps
“these are so fucking spicy!”
New pen, still at ‘Murrays, great to see D.
RED HOT
It hit my tongue
great packaging for crisps
but my tongues gonna melt!
GIRL
Red T-Shirt
cute
I wanna hold yr sunglasses
LEATHER (by Daniel Fisher)
Man in seamless leather jacket
you seem less leather
somehow
ROLLER BLADES
Blading it through traffic
keeping yr cool
with headphones
CITY POEM
“It ain’t a city”
says Daniel
“its a state of Yeah man – Yeahhhhhhhhhhhmaaaaaaannnn”
DUDE WITH THICK BLACK RIMMED GLASSES HOLDS HANDS WITH A GIRL
Bemused
Bespeckled
Acting the part
OLD GUY
Who are those flowers for?
You look kind of tired
but not lonely.
CONEY ISLAND
I never got to go there
it’s over
i guess I don’t care too much
BLONDE LADY WEARING LOOKING GLASSES
Big glasses chic
you moved for the cleaner that i didn’t notice
you judged.
CHINESE MAN NO. 2
Yr still here too
girls and guys walk past ignoring,
yr still not bored?
DAVE
We will live together
weirdo poetry platters
“may i take your coat sir?”
HATTIE NO. 2
We will live together
midnight snacks and dancing
“lets make a coffee song!”
N.Y FOOD IMPROV
DANIEL NO. 2
HOT MOUTH
I USED THE TOILET NEXT DOOR
SMOKES
SUNDAY
LOX & CREAM CHEESE
SHORT SPANISH CAMP GUY
POEMS
LONDON
BEARD
CONFUSED
VOGUE NAIL SALON
WOMEN ON PHONE – “How you circling?”
WOMAN ON PHONE NO.2 “Shes gona be a Queens of Queens girl again”
CHERRY COKE
WOMAN WALKS TOWARD CAFE
WALKMAN
TIME TO MOVE
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