Posted in Uncategorized on 06/30/2011 04:14 pm by Classic NYer
He asked me a question about last Sunday. He asked me what was my aim. I told him I hadn’t spoken to my therapist about him yet. He went into a treatise on why a hook-up between the two of us would be a bad idea. I nodded. I think he talks too much…
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bullshit, drum, guitar, hippie, madison square park, music
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/28/2011 08:15 pm by Classic NYer
Anyone else remember when I said I was going to do yoga every day until the 4th of July? Well, it hasn’t quite worked out that way.
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plans, yoga
Posted in Music Monday on 06/27/2011 01:39 pm by Classic NYer
You’re my little secret and that’s how we should keep it…
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friends, harlem flophouse, hat, music, paris blues, rock band
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/25/2011 03:52 pm by Classic NYer
I came back with some cheap vodka. A one-dollar shot. Yes, in the middle of the day.
“It was this or cyanide,” I explained, pouring the contents into my coffee.
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alcohol, anger, coffee, friends, pills, suicide
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/18/2011 02:02 pm by Classic NYer
…it annoys me when I buy something like… say… a container of blueberries, use a handful of them in a salad and store the rest in my friend’s fridge in Harlem, and come back the next day or later the same day to an empty or missing container of blueberries.
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blueberries, food, food stamps, friend, grocery, money
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/15/2011 08:16 pm by Classic NYer
If you’re wondering what’s a surefire way to get an ass-whuppin’ from a Classic NYer…
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bitch slap, friends
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/14/2011 05:39 pm by Classic NYer
A small boy (eight or nine) was on the train with his mother when a homeless person came through the car begging for money. The little boy had some money (a quarter! a whole quarter!). “Mom, can I give him some money? Can I give him some money?” “Sure, honey.” He waved his little quarter [...]
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homelessness, kids, money, subway
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/13/2011 04:24 pm by Classic NYer
This crew as well I’ve seen before… at least, I’ve seen the ringleader with a different set of dancers. This is another one that’s better live, if only because the person who took this video (intelligently) edited out all the bad jokes, which are funny when you hear them in person, but not so much when you watch a video of it later. He did manage to get across though that the ringleader is nothing short of a clown, haha. The time I saw him he was wearing a leapord-print leotard with a tail. Yeah. A clown.
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dance, singing, subway, trumpet, union square, washington square
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/11/2011 11:56 pm by Classic NYer
I’ve noticed that at moments when I would have otherwise looked… raggedy, I was saved by the presence of my scarf. A faded tank top that has seen better days… cheap too-long jeans folded up at the bottom so I don’t tread on the hems… throw a pashmina over it and suddenly it looks like I did it on purpose.
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accessory, clothes, fashion, scarf
Posted in Poetry Corner on 06/10/2011 07:57 pm by Classic NYer
scribbling meaninglessly
because I have something to lose
which nobody else wants
least of all you…
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