What is it about New York
that makes us so proud to live here
that we can’t bare the idea of leaving here,
even with the incessant sounds of horns
horns that play a symphony into your windows
That makes it worth the rising fare
of the subway, although we no longer
feel safe getting where we need to go
That attracts us during winter
while the rest of our friends & family
take morning walks in the sun, or
by the sea, or by the mountains
That makes us forget dinner
shouldn’t cost this much
That makes us forget that most
of the time it's better to do less,
to go slow, than the opposite
That makes us feel bigger
than a microcosm in the universe & that to leave
New York would be to fail on a dream we
stopped chasing long ago