I wandered

   the grave bypass

   of triangulated symptoms!

    endeared myself to pharmacy workers

     kept bottles and pills

    Pills and bottles of unknown potency

    made dates for Sunday lunch

   with 95 year old mom with a broken arm

   drive over bridges and thru tunnels

   like a message in a bottle

HELP! IM STUCK ON AN ISLAND! SEND HELP!

but nothing 

day after day

  drinking coffee and smoking cigs

   eating sweet and sour pork

   lunch specials

and thinking about New York City

and the line at Katz's Deli

  wandering SoHo

  and the west village

  staying at my cousins empty apartment 

on MacDougall street