Blue Apple

Taxis streaming by

in a yellow haze of acid rain,

Electric; Film; Speed;

Neon lights blinking, winking

into the cool New York air

A picture postcard

An unpaid fare

A Manhattan merrygoround to

Times Square.

Bleeding voices mingle with

the rain,

Joining the river,

Smeering the lens

with homesick tears.

Exposed; Foto; Smile;

Necks craning, bathing in

the New York Sun,

in a yellow haze

a neon temple,

a shopping mall,

Hailing Caesar

before the fall.