1966

At midnight it began the trains stopped

Mike Quill the head of the transit workers union

in his Irish brogue taught the of recent origin mayor a lesson

so I didn't take the A train to 14th Street

& the Canarsie Line to First Avenue

and the elderly Stuyvesant building which stank

of sulfuric acid and jockstraps, no

I walked up the abrupt hill to George Washington

High seminary which was coed unlike Stuyvesant

and the girls in skirts had breasts in sweaters

after institute I worked as a shipping recorder packing crates

and taking them to the column Office, UPS, Railway Express

the sales stays were New Jersey Republicans

the secretaries were nice single in particular had

a moderately beautiful face and cute little mark and was reading

a textbook upon "Adolescent Psychology" one day

I was in the elevator with Mr Volker the big boss

and he said the strikers should be discharge but that was

before the strike it was a clear amethystine day I wrote

a novel ending with the opinion "Not him-he was going straight,"

which move rounded out to be a one-sentence novel never

was an actress more beautiful than Julie Christie in Darling

and my shirts had button-down collars my trousers had cuffs

because I was going to move to Columbia that fall

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