can I hear
the sound of bicycle tires in the street
and rudolph nureyev
in photos
New York is a big city
"Have you had an egg cream?"
Once upon a time
in Hung Fat
we had chow mein
and dumplings and the
broken Bowery toys of
bottled cirrhosis

and she

said she met the Wicked Witch of the West
who lived in the same building as
her Aunt Russ
Can you see Dick Avedon
furniture movers?
It's how to make a photograph

I never did see that building
can't remember the name of it
she knew the gardener that 
worked there