a bagel with everything

i have little interest

in the Statue

of Liberty these days, or

the Empire State Building.

i don't care

about the Brooklyn

Bridge,

or Wall Street.

the Lincoln Tunnel.

i don't need to go to

Times Square 

anymore, or Noho,

or Soho, just get me

to a deli,

where they serve

a pile of pastrami on a slice

of seeded

rye, with a swath of

mustard, or just

a bagel with everything,

toasted.

forget Chinatown

and Greenwich Village,

the Hudson

and the East River,

The Edge

and The Highland,

do i need to walk Central

Park once more?

perhaps, but

let's eat first and then,

we'll walk,

and do it all.